I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.
The stuff I'm designing, I want my action scenes to be intense.
As much as I love creating entertaining visuals, I love toying with the pace of a movie and trying to perfect that. It's imperative to the impact: faster cuts, cuts at the right moments that meld with the tenor of a scene. Creating and maintaining that feeling.
I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.
I watch a lot of movies, and I tend to be influenced by scenes that intrigue me, that make me want to use the same effects or technique.
I've done some effects shots. I've done some compositing. And in 'Just Like Heaven' did a lot of, like, motion control and things like that. But never done, like, computer-generated imagery in action.
A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.
I'd like to act in a film without special effects.