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" As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby. "
John Knoll
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" It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one. "
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" ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division. "
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" I've been lucky enough in my career to have opportunities to revisit things that meant a lot to me in childhood. "
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" There's no reason to think Disney is going to stop wanting to make 'Star Wars' movies if there's quality and there's interest. It has unlimited potential. It has a huge number of characters, worlds... It's a massive playground. "
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" There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for 'New Hope,' and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for 'Empire Strikes Back.' The 8-foot model and the 3-foot model are kind of different. A lot of the details are different between the two of them. "
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" I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career. "
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" There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?' "
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" 'Phantom Menace' was a huge project. It was the biggest visual effects production ever done at that point, and it was a little scary how big it was and how many unknown technologies had to be developed to do that work. "
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" 'Pacific Rim,' for me, was a chance to touch on those old Toho monster movies. 'Godzilla' and 'Rodan'... and then 'Ultraman' and 'Robotech' and all those kinds of things. "
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" In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later. "
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Decisions
Make
" As Lucasfilm is developing IP and we're working on our projects, we should be using those films to advance the ball further down the field and to make things better for the rest of the company and the rest of the industry. "
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Rest
Down
Better
" I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that. "
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Looking
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Loved
" When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker. "
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Hobbies
Kid
" A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material. "
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Star
Us
Got
" It's part of the culture at ILM and at Lucasfilm that the work is better when you collaborate, you know. There's this culture of open exchange, a wonderful ego-free sharing of ideas and talent. "
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Work
Culture
Ideas
" The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!' "
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Thought
Tools
Cool
" When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work. "
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Work
Digital
Right
" Every film tries to advance the state of the art, at least a little bit. Brand new techniques? A lot of them are just evolutionary: we're just building on something that's like something we've done before and just trying to do it a little bit better or make it a little bit more realistic. "
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Trying
Art
Better
" I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision. "
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Job
Organization
Try
" Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work. "
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People
You
Work
" I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job. "
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Just
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" Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever. "
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" A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well. "
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Kind
Well
Job
" Part of the process is always, 'Is there a better way?' We try to think through if there's something we can do better creatively or technically, or just is more efficient. "
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Way
" Reacting is so important to the craft of acting. "
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Acting
Craft
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" You can hardly turn around and not see something that was done in Photoshop. "
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Done
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You
" When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker. "
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Model
First
Industry
" I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big 'Star Wars' fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, 'Star Wars' could use more good strong female leads.' "
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Know
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" When you are shooting traditional motion capture, it's a big footprint on set. There are, like, 16 cameras that are needed and constraints over the lighting. "
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