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" I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies. "

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" There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible. "

Douglas Trumbull

Glasses

You

Movies

" My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures. "

" I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions. "

" The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit. "

" I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics. "

" I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm. "

Douglas Trumbull

Technology

Leap

" When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that. "

" I learned a lot on '2001.' "

Douglas Trumbull

Lot

Learned

" I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery. "

" Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color. "

" I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected. "

" I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes. "

" I think 'Avatar' is much more appropriate to high frame rates because it's like a ride, and it's futuristic, and vividness and sharp edges and clarity would be an asset. "

Douglas Trumbull

Think

High

" It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before. "

" I meet astrophysicists almost every week who say that they went into their line of work because of '2001.' "

" IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. "

" The technology of the time dictated the way things looked. "

" I got hooked on immersive cinema when I worked on '2001,' which was initially shown on these Cinerama screens, which were all 90 feet wide and deeply curved. "

" Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering. "

Douglas Trumbull

Problems

Challenges

" Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second. "

" It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color! "

" My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. "

" I took IMAX public back in the early '90s. "

" Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering. "

" I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary. "

" But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him. "

" There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology. "

Douglas Trumbull

Work

Pops

" My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie. "

" There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens. "

" If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different. "