44 Quotes by Douglas Trumbull

When I worked on 2001 – which was my first feature film – I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s.

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

I think miniatures are still superior to a lot of computer graphics.

There was every reason to honestly say that 3D was a gimmick. And it's largely true. And it's largely pretty bad. When you put a filter in front of the projector, and you put on your glasses and cut the light in half again, the movies are dim as hell, and they give you headaches and eye strain, and it's terrible.

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.

I learned a lot on '2001.'

I'd rather have fewer spectacular theaters than tons of cheap little multiplexes.