Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

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.

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 that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

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