George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up.

The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic, ' that they would love me more.

Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.

When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

A divorce lawyer is a chameleon with a law book.

Time is to eternity as an image is to its exemplar, and those things which are temporal bear a resemblance to those things which are eternal.

If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.