44 Quotes by Douglas Trumbull

My personal feeling is that ultra-high frame rates and ultra-vivid giant screen movies can be like a window onto reality. And if you recognize it as such, you can write your screenplay, direct your movie, edit it, and present it as a live experience - not like a movie.

Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.

When I was a young man in school, I used to read science fiction and really liked it. And as I became a young artist, I was filling up my portfolio with alien planets and spacecraft and things like that.

Working on '2001' was my film school. Stanley Kubrick was my mentor.

I got hooked on immersive cinema when I worked on '2001,' which was initially shown on these Cinerama screens, which were all 90 feet wide and deeply curved.

I think 'Avatar' is much more appropriate to high frame rates because it's like a ride, and it's futuristic, and vividness and sharp edges and clarity would be an asset.

I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit.