Adam McKay
Adam McKay

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

Adam Savage
Adam Savage

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's harder to make real audio than special effects audio.

Bill Budge
Bill Budge

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz

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

Bob Balaban
Bob Balaban

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.

Catherine Bell
Catherine Bell

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Deneuve

Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.

Chris Evans
Chris Evans

You know, the reward for 'Captain America' is amazing. It's always fun to see a giant spectacle film and see the fun stuff - the special effects.

Chris Kirkpatrick
Chris Kirkpatrick

It's all about the special effects.