“It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.” ThinkingWayHardPlayTogetherFacesWaitingInterestingWatchesClearSpecialEffectsHard WorkHugeSceneShotsBallsCamerasIncrediblesHopefullyGiantsTennisWorking ItWowCrystalsReally InterestingReactingSpecial EffectsEditedTennis Balls Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.” IfsThinkingWaySpecialEffectsHugeFormerSpecial EffectsMovie Sets Author:Eric Fellner
“Particularly in the final season [of Fringe], when we were shooting seven-day episodes with a reduced budget and big special effects, the team was so polished, by then, that we were able to do it and, I think, with incredible results.” ThinkingBigsAbleResultsTeamSpecialEffectsSeasonsSevenFinalsIncrediblesShootingBudgetsEpisodesFringePolishedSpecial EffectsSeven Days Author:John Noble
“Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.” PeopleIfsThinkingHumansFactsTogetherLyingEffectsCivilizationTruth IsClaimsToleranceAdmireBetrayPoliteByeGood ByeDespicableTactBeing PoliteCharades Author:Jack McDevitt
“I love when you take bizarre, non-human things and somehow make them human or accessible. I think that's why I like the practical effects. You can look at a creature and still see vulnerability or the character behind the creature. To get character behind CG creatures, that's so few and far between.” ThinkingHumansLooksStillsCharacterBehindsEffectsCreaturesPracticalsVulnerabilityBizarre Author:Kevin Munroe
“And this movie [Real Steel] definitely looks like nothing else I've made, which was the point. I think also, Evangeline and Hugh are such a fantastic... Their chemistry is so genuine. And also it's a good balance to all those visual effects. It'll give you more of the tone.” ThinkingGivingLooksMadeRealEffectsBalanceGenuineFantasticToneVisualsChemistrySteelVisual EffectsReal Steel Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the final product. But in the same breath, I would say there's no shot in the teaser that I'm not really happy with.” ThinkingHandsCultureAudienceEffectsProductsShotsBreathsFinalsAssumptionRepresentativesReally HappySavvyTeasers Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I would say, while I think audiences are savvy enough, I think that the effects work in the teaser is quite a bit more than presentable. I think they look good and representative of the film. The harder thing with the teaser, interestingly enough is, how much to show.” ThinkingLooksEnoughShowsFilmBitsAudienceEffectsHarderRepresentativesSavvyTeasers Author:Shawn Anthony Levy
“I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world or a lot of visual effects, you're almost better doing that in post.” IfsThinkingWorldEnvironmentEffectsCreatingResearchPostsI've LearnedVisualsVisual Effects Author:Neal H. Moritz
“Well, I think it's era that in which people had a lot of fun. In fact too much fun and would not concern themselves with the negative effects of the accesses that they were involved in.” PeopleThinkingWellsFactsFunToo MuchEffectsInvolvedConcernNegativeAccessErasToo Much Fun Author:Gloria Gaynor
“I am not a climatologist, but I don't think any of the other witnesses are either. I do work in the related field of atomic, molecular and optical physics. I have spent my professional life studying the interactions of visible and infrared radiation with gases - one of the main physical phenomena behind the greenhouse effect. I have published over 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.” ThinkingBehindsStudyEffectsFieldsPaperPhysicsWitnessRelatedVisibleRadiationInteractionPeersJournalPapersGreenhousesProfessional LifeInfrared Author:William Happer
“I've approached music with the understanding that knowledge is available regarding tones and their effect upon the body. I think the father of that knowledge was the mathematician Pythagoras who lived several thousand years ago. Pythagoras was also a fine musician and he knew specifically what tones would affect which parts of the body.” ThinkingYearsBodyFatherUnderstandingEffectsFineThousandMusicianYears AgoAvailableToneMathematicianThousand YearsParts Of The Body Author:Paul Horn
“I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.” ThinkingHumansFilmNextHuman BeingsFictionPiecesSpecialEffectsMoonScience FictionThese DaysThe Next OneSpecial Effects Author:Duncan Jones
“My biggest difference with our film and those kinds of science fiction films is that they are going from one special effect set piece to the next, what we were doing was more of a character study. And I think that is the freedom that you get by doing an Indie film. You can only really do that with a lower budget. So I understand where the conflict is between those two priorities.” ThinkingKindTwoCharacterFilmNextDifferencesFictionStudyPiecesSpecialEffectsConflictScience FictionPrioritiesBudgetsSpecial EffectsIndie Films Author:Duncan Jones
“Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindFeelingsCausesCan DoEffectsLetting GoTransformationMedicineReachingUnleashedSensingBlockage Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingFirstsIdeasShowsJobsUsedFiveWonderfulAirEffectsTelevisionStrangeShotsDown AndScaryInsaneNo IdeaLunchOverwhelmingPeculiarNutsRecognizingDo The BestPersonal RelationshipsFirecracker Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
“I call it "the big picture effect." Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it in the heavens as a planet as opposed to being down here among it, most of the people, in fact, I guess all of the people who have had that experience, shift their thinking.” PeopleThinkingFactsBigsEarthHeavenSeeingEffectsPlanetsPerspectiveBig Picture Author:Edgar Mitchell
“It's been written about as "the overview effect." All I can give you is my perspective, but most all of the people who have been in space start to see the world without boundaries. You start to think about how we can keep doing these things we're doing that are destructive of the environment and destructive of the planet. It causes you to start to think things in a quite different way than we had before.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayGivingHas BeensI CanDifferentCausesSpaceEnvironmentWrittenEffectsPlanetsPerspectiveBoundariesDifferent WaysDestructiveOverview Author:Edgar Mitchell
“The tea is pure chemistry, and so is everything else. But chemistry can be highly active with nutrients, it could be not very active and empty of nutrients or it could be a toxic, polluted substance. That's what interests me as an environmentalist, because I think we should only produce the purest, finest things. Then there would be no toxic side effects. There would be no wastes, because everything would be used responsibly.” ThinkingShouldWould BeUsedSidesInterestEffectsProducePureWasteEmptyActiveTeaSubstanceChemistryToxicFinestEnvironmentalistSide EffectsNutrients Author:Horst Rechelbacher
“Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.” ThinkingKnowsYearsKindPlayLastsHouseDealsQualityEffectsHugeTenConnectionsVariousPopsAtmosphereRepetitionBassRepetitiveDance MusicAmbientHouse MusicAmbienceDrum And Bass Author:Bill Laswell
“I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.” IfsThinkingGivingMomentsHappensAgeImaginationToo MuchAchieveEffectsPersonalityLifetimeThat MomentImpossibilityMatchingOnce In A Lifetime Book:Conversations with Joseph Heller Source: Conversations with Joseph Heller
“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayHumansFactsLawBeliefRaceMoralEffectsExampleDutyDevelopmentPeriodsEvidenceAbsolutesFavorsHuman RaceDogmaticMoral LawCannibalismContendingGood Moral Author:Bertrand Russell
“Autobiographical writings, essays, interviews, various other things... All the non-fiction prose I wanted to keep, that was the idea behind this collected volume, which came out about few years ago. I didn't think of Winter Journal, for example, as an autobiography, or a memoir. What it is is a literary work, composed of autobiographical fragments, but trying to attain, I hope, the effect of music.” ThinkingWritingTryingYearsIdeasWantedBehindsFictionEffectsExampleYears AgoWinterVariousMemoirInterviewsProseVolumeJournalAutobiographyEssaysFragmentsNon FictionLiterary WorksWriting Essays Author:Paul Auster
“There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.” ThinkingHas BeensTodayModernEffectsFaultsRapRapperOutputModern DayRap Music Author:M.I.A.
“I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.” ThinkingLittlesSelfCoursesEffectsDeterminedBustedSelf DestructAmphetamines Author:Patricia McConnell
“I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then - if you're hard on yourself, in good ways - pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.” IfsThinkingWayHardActionForceAttentionEffectsHabitEmpathyScalesPushingTranslateGood WayCumulative Author:Leslie Jamison
“I think "MythBusters" is a step up from special effects because we not only have to make things look like they work, they actually do have to work. It's more challenging and even transcendental.” ThinkingLooksChallengesStepsSpecialEffectsWorking ItStep UpTranscendentalSpecial EffectsMythbusters Author:Jamie Hyneman
“I don't think you need to watch Arrow and Flash to appreciate what it is Legends has to offer. The beauty of this show - and they do this on Flash, and they did this on Arrow - is that we do spend time on character. We do spend time on backstory. We do take a moment in between the sci-fi special effects to tell you who these people are, so that when something happens to them, you actually care.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMomentsCharacterShowsHappensCareWatchesSpecialEffectsOffersAppreciateThings HappenLegendsSci FiFlashEnd TimesSpend TimeArrowsSpecial Effects Author:Wentworth Miller
“Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange.” ThinkingWantNeedsTryingSometimesEffectsEmotionalStrangeSentencesSpeedDecadesGesturesDelayTry AgainClicksIntriguedMiltonSyntax Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.” ThinkingDoeBookIdeasRealMomentsMightReadingEffectsReaderWorthyTitlesThat MomentReal ThingsAmazing BookWorthy Things Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really just see those titles as ways of more or less orienting the poem. I've never thought about this until now, but I guess you could say that one effect of all the titles, their pervasiveness in the book, might be to once again, as so many other things do, put into question the meaning of the word "for," which I suppose is one of the great human questions: what is all this for? Why, and for whom, are we doing whatever we are doing?” ThinkingWayHumansBookMightEffectsMy FavoriteTitlesOdes Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I just know from experience that reading a funny poem aloud, especially at the beginning of a public reading, can have a certain effect. Somehow narrowing the spectrum of possible emotional reactions. So while I like it when people laugh at my poems, and I definitely enjoy being funny in them, I don't really think that's the most important thing that's going on, at least not to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantCertainReadingEnjoyLaughingEffectsEmotionalImportant ThingsReactionsSpectrumBeing FunnyEmotional Reactions Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I was thinking a lot about the aftermath of bad choices, how people deal with the trauma of having survived trauma, if that makes sense, and so I wrote about this character's last day on the job, how after spending 15 years pretending to be a rabbi, he'd in effect become a rabbi.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsCharacterJobsLastsChoicesDealsEffectsTraumaSpendingMake SensePretendingSurvivedLast DayAftermathRabbiBad Choices Author:Tod Goldberg
“Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingMindPersonsHas BeensSometimesCertainStuffForgetEffectsParticularPerspectiveReaderPagesConnectionsAssumptionCommentSurprisingEnlighteningInfluential Author:Chang-Rae Lee