Muren Quotes & Sayings

And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world. — Dennis Muren

He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation. — Charles Wright

I'm always reaching for something we really haven't done, and War of the Worlds has a lot of this sort of documentary look to it and first-person camera view that is a new thing for me. I've done some stuff like that before, but nothing like the extent of this and digitally. — Dennis Muren

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry. — Jen Lancaster

The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it. — Hamza Yusuf

The Lord watches over us every moment of every day. He is there
and He cares
about every step and every breath. — Dillon Burroughs

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that. — Dennis Muren

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies. — Dennis Muren

I haven't done anything, except be born. — David Estes

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

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Desperate doesnt begin to cover it. Whatever your problems, and we certainly wont try to minimize them, they are nothing compared to the world of hurt you'll enter if you do stupid things like offer complete strangers money to help you do illegal things ... ..There should be something in your genetic code that alerts you to the fact that you're doing something extremely stupid and wrong. So we're clear, the offer was in Canadian dollars and not American, right? — Emmanuel Goldstein

I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am. — Maria Canals Barrera

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be taken by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up. — Dennis Muren

There, in the shimmering distance, was a sail. I stared in momentary disbelief, but there it was, one of the most beautiful sights the Pacific can ever offer - a ship in full sail edging her way through the blue waters. — Tom Neale

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie. — Dennis Muren

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

Everything will be art and nothing will be art, because everything, as I believe, already is. — Andy Warhol

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

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great. — Dennis Muren

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better. — Chuck Palahniuk

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

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it. — Dennis Muren

There are pedosexuals who, even if the court forces them to go into treatment, do not pursue it or cannot pursue it. — Volkmar Sigusch

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

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

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

Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience. — Dennis Muren

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again. — Robert Gottlieb

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great. — Dennis Muren

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something. — Dennis Muren

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible. — Frank Caliendo

If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in line, and your work has changed their lives. You will need to listen to them because they are also going to feed you and give you confirmation of the prayer you asked before you spoke. — Sandra Cisneros

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