Rick Heinrichs Quotes

#1. You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

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#2. In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when in fact they only built part of it and were able to extend it using all of this fabulous technology.

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#3. Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

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#4. I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers.

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#5. A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring to it, that they've developed on their own and that is singular to them.

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#6. You certainly can't be a perfect person, coming up with the 100% correct solution, all the time. It's just a combination of a chain of good decisions that comes up with a successful product or a successful film. That's what you hope for. But, nothing about the system is 100% fool proof.

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#7. You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

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#8. I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.

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#9. One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

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#10. The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

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#11. I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

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#12. My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

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#13. The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

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#14. The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

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