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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I came in during the era of models, motion control, and optical printers. ILM had just started its own computer graphics division, after the Lucasfilm computer division had been sold off and became Pixar. "

" When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker. "

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" 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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" In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later. "

" Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't have any particular loyalties to one technique or another. I'm just trying to use the best for the job. "

" Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever. "

" A lot of filmmakers understand that the work is done digitally, and it's technically possible to change it late in the game. "

" I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career. "

" 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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" As soon as you take your hobby and make it into your profession, it sort of kills it as a hobby. "

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" 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. "

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