If you can imagine it, we can make it.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

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.