If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

- John Dykstra

Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast tha…

- John Dykstra

With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects, characters and the whole clo…

- John Dykstra

Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

- John Dykstra

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

- John Dykstra

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel…

- John Dykstra

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with …

- John Dykstra

You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down …

- John Dykstra

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

- John Dykstra