Dennis Muren Quotes


You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening. - Dennis Muren


Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore. - Dennis Muren


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. - Dennis Muren


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. - Dennis Muren


Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes. - Dennis Muren


So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically. - Dennis Muren


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. - Dennis Muren


Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time. - Dennis Muren


I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not. - Dennis Muren


It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible. - Dennis Muren


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