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 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.

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 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.

Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

The only countries that are outside of [ Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty] are Israel, Pakistan, India, and North Korea withdrew in the last few years.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

Donald Rumsfeld should not just be impeached. He should be tried as a war criminal. As for Bush, he can be dispatched by the electorate while we are still a democracy.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.