Dennis Muren
Dennis Muren
Dennis Muren, ASCis an American film special effects artist & supervisor, most notable for his work on the films of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and George Lucas. He has won eight Oscars for Best Visual Effects...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth1 November 1946
CountryUnited States of America
team three film
Other times you can get showy for three minutes, and that's OK with certain films. But that isn't right with an Ang Lee movie, you have to fit right in. You have to understand Ang, respect him and be part of the team and not be in charge of it - he is in charge of it.
years people stories
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.
opportunity giving trying
Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.
stars war doors
To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming.
done world want
And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.
kind invisible forrest-gump
It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible.
people want firsts
What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.
children book interesting
But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.
trust way murphys-law
And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.
done enough ifs
I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.