Special Effects Quotes

“People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Somehow human authority is never enough; we must have special effects.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

“Everybody has the attitude of "no one has ever done it, but let's do it." Why not? If there's going to be a first, let's be the first.”
― Doug Chiang, Lucasfilm

“Star Wars introduced a new way for using the five screen speakers [in theaters]. By pushing left and right sound channels to the farthest out speakers the pair just inside those was made available. Lucas' mixers then placed low frequency effects in those speakers, and named it the 'baby boom' channel. Human ears can hear frequencies up to around 20,000 hertz, and down to around 20 Hertz for very low sounds. Below that you don't *hear* the sound, but if the 'volume' is 'loud' enough, you can *feel* the sound. Super-low frequencies affect us emotionally, usually inducing something like fear. We feel them during earthquakes. Lucasfilm put sound effects in the baby boom channel for audiences to feel--for instance, in the opening shot of Star Wars where the little diplomatic ship is running from the Imperial Cruiser. It's no wonder this is one of the most memorable and ominous shots in cinematic history. It was not only cool looking, but cool *sounding*”
― Michael Rubin, Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution

“Our future generations will laugh at us when our people see the Special Effects they will shout SubhanAllah or OMG! our generation problem is that there are thousands of synonyms for creduloUS but we know less than ten of them.”
― Jahanshah Safari

“Mannequin heads with crushed orbital bones and humorous growths. Stacks of newborn babies. Eyeballs trailing rubbery pink muscles, like a school of prehistoric jellyfish. Viv always laughed when she thought of how Tim described Mandy: "Dr. Frankenstein with a hoarding issue.”
― Vicki Grant, Tell Me When You Feel Something