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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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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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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My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.
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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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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Love is not consolation. It is light.
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I've done a lot of work in the gym preparing myself for what is certain to be pretty strenuous pre-season training - something I've not previously experienced. And I knocked local football on the head this winter, simply to ensure I didn't pick up any injuries.
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I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
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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.
