"My very first day, we were doing a huge practical effect, a flying effect. It was going to be me and Gene Hackman. Ok…"

"Jurassic Park's revolution was technological, but more importantly, it was popular. If Spielberg and Lucas saw the fu…"

"Now, almost no major-studio movie is made without CGI—even Oscar-baiting dramas like Social Network, or comedies like…"

"The temptations and pitfalls are to go too far -- to exaggerate too much and just put things on the screen because yo…"

"One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the setting…"

"Some of the physical phenomena commonly simulated in movie and video game special effects include water, fire, smoke,…"

"Any kid with a computer can reproduce the special effects seen in today’s movies. The mystery's gone. The curiosity t…"

"I ask El Espinal mayors not to allow more events involving the death of people or animals [after the bullfighting sta…"

"The Roman public's thirst for blood and pleasure in witnessing pain seems to have been unquenchable and without limit…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"