Douglas Trumbull Quotes
'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.
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Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.
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Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
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I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
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Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be
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BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.
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The hot radio medium used in cool or nonliterate cultures has a violent effect, quite unlike its effect, say in England or America, where radio is felt as entertainment. (p. 30)
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'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.
