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.

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.

Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.

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.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.