Top 1200 Special Effects Quotes & Sayings

A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.

Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys and the art department guys, how they work and seeing their visions is really interesting. I don't think those guys get the recognition they deserve.

When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one special effect. But very rarely do these things fuse and come out right.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

I'd like to act in a film without special effects.

I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually.

Whenever you're in a show that has a lot of special effects, there is a large margin for error.

The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.

When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies... Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how'd they do that.

With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

I've always been respectful to all the people who do visual effects and special effects, because making movies is also making magic.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects!

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects.

It wasn't the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say they've played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

'Heroes' was a huge show with 12 cast members and giant special effects.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do.

I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

I try to express in my films things that no other art can approach. In my monster films for example, I use special effects in the same way one would use a special film stock, a special camera, and so on. Monster films permit me to use all of these elements at the same time. They are the most visual kind of film.

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

One of my first things I was fascinated with when I got on set was how does Grant do all this Flash stuff? it looks so good as the end product, but how does the special effects team work? How does the visual effects team work?

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.

So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special effects.

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.

Nowadays, you can't broadcast dodgy special effects and then put up a caption saying, 'Sorry, this is what the budget was.' You have to do it with high production values because the audience has been spoilt by the special effects on things like 'The X Files' and 'Independence Day.'

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.

Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.

Going from dialogue-driven 'New Tricks' to a movie like 'The Machine' which has special effects has been brilliant.

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

I think that in big-budget movies there's a lot of other stuff going on besides acting, like special effects.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

There are so many sequels where everything between the special effects is just boring.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.

Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

It's all about the special effects.

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief.

The daily work on special effects is fairly mundane.

I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.”