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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. "
John Knoll
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Me
Childhood
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" Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very heart of the Empire's military-industrial complex, the most secure facility in the Empire. You have a small band of experts with complementary skills who, together, are able to do these amazing things. "
John Knoll
Heart
Amazing
Together
" On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie. "
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Even
Work
Some
" If you were a new guy at ILM, they put you on the night crew - my shift was from 7 P.M. to about 5 A.M. In my free time, I was working on an idea with my older brother, a software engineer getting his doctorate at the University of Michigan. Ultimately, it developed into Photoshop. "
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Night
" 'Baby's Day Out' is maybe not a great movie, but... No, I've enjoyed and learned things from every project I've worked on. That was an important step in my career at ILM. "
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Step
Out
" 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.' "
John Knoll
Know
Thought
You
" If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s. "
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You
Army
Need
" Something we often struggle with on pictures is the right way to shoot live-action elements that are for an environment that's very complicated from a lighting standpoint. An example is a starship flying through an environment that's constantly changing. "
John Knoll
Pictures
Struggle
Environment
" Visual-effects shots should flow into the rest of the live action, and you shouldn't be able to see a difference. "
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You
Live
Rest
" I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie. "
John Knoll
Job
Us
Important
" Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?' "
John Knoll
Job
Like
Ask
" 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. "
John Knoll
Work
Digital
Right
" Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever. "
John Knoll
Through
Picture
Way
" A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game. "
John Knoll
Change
Done
Game
" We were in an atmosphere in the household that you could accomplish anything you set your mind to. If you were willing to put in the hard work, nothing was beyond your grasp. "
John Knoll
You
Accomplish
Hard Work
" I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models. "
John Knoll
You
Planning
Movies
" I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career. "
John Knoll
Enjoy
Always
Doing
" 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?' "
John Knoll
Digital
Aesthetic
You
" There's a shot that I designed to try and illustrate the scale of the Death Star that's sort of framed in close on the equatorial trench as Krennic's ship is leaving. The camera's pulling back, and you start with it framed so you can kind of see those docking bays that are in that trench. "
John Knoll
Start
You
Ship
" Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it. "
John Knoll
Ethics
Artist
Good
" 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. "
John Knoll
Model
First
Industry
" I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very long and detailed interviews with a whole bunch of people at ILM. I think I memorized that whole magazine. "
John Knoll
Interviews
Think
Star
" A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material. "
John Knoll
Star
Us
Got
" 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. "
John Knoll
Motion
Over
Capture
" '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. "
John Knoll
Me
Monster
Old
" I've gone through a whole series of careers where something started as a hobby of some kind. Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught. "
John Knoll
Kind
Hobby
Gone
" As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby. "
John Knoll
Hobby
Profession
Soon
" I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision. "
John Knoll
Job
Organization
Try
" In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects. "
John Knoll
Myself
Goals
School
" 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
Events
Loved
" Almost everything I've been paid to do was something that was largely self-taught. "
John Knoll
Almost
Something
Been