Occupation: Production Designer
In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part….
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to i….
I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers..
I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very ea….
You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback..
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are….
One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it..
I love working with other people, and I love the fact that film is a collaborative industry and form of art. You're all working with each other and p….
The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities tha….
With all of this new technology at our hand, there is much more opportunity to show and to allow the audience to take in bits of the story on a more ….
I was working with actors who were very easy to work with, but I can just imagine how, with all the other decision-making problems that come up along….
I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well..
You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions….
Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different..
The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to ….
If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringi….
The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage..
You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes..