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15 quotes by John Dykstra

John Dykstra Born John Charles Dykstra (1947-06-03) June 3, 1947 (age 67) Long Beach, California, U.S. Nationality American Alma mater California State University, Long Beach Occupation Special Effects artist Years active 1971–present Spouse(s) Cass McCune (1996 - ) John Charles Dykstra, A.S.C. (born June 3, 1947 in Long Beach, California, United States) is a special effects artist and pioneer in the development of the use of...
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I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

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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... →

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If you can imagine it, we can make it.

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As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a... →

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It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the screen that you... →

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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... →

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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... →

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In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just... →

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I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival... →

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