I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.
It was really hard to find another project after my first film.
I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.