2d Quotes

#1. People shoot 2D movies and convert them and I never think they're as good. 3D is really a scientific process of laying out shots and picking rotations.

Carl Mazzocone

#2. I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.

Todd Strauss-Schulson

#3. To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.

William Friedkin

#4. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

Ang Lee

#5. They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Thomas Paine

#6. Depending on the budget. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film.

Ang Lee

#7. We're finally going to be free of the 2D monitor. It's been a window into virtual reality that we've all looked into for 30 or 40 years.

Brendan Iribe

#8. When you start to see things that are well-executed you'll watch a lot of stuff in 3D and see the same scene again in 2D and realize, "Oh, my god, it's like you turned the color off or the sound off." Once you get used to it, I think audiences and the public will want more of it.

Andrew Wight

#9. I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

Dan Scanlon

#10. You know, I love stop-motion. I've done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I've done cutout animation. I did a CG short a few years ago, 'Moongirl,' for young kids. Stop-motion is what I keep coming back to, because it has a primal nature. It can never be perfect.

Henry Selick

#11. To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

Ciaran Hinds

#12. 1st Gent. Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. 2d Gent. Ay, truly: but I think it is the world That brings the iron. [1]

George Eliot

#13. Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D!

Shigeru Miyamoto

#14. Many people are taking 2D games and making them into 3D games by recreating the characters in polygons. But the gameplay's still the same, and that's not what they should be doing.

Hideo Kojima

#15. I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

Ang Lee

#16. My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or animating characters, then just bringing them all together in a 3D space. That process is very close to my 2D work anyway.

Dave McKean

#17. 2D looks so flat. Well, it is, of course, it's flat. But 3D isn't. And for an adventure story that takes you into a long-distant, fictional world, it's ideal, I think.

Ian McKellen

#18. You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.

Joseph Kosinski

#19. I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

Chris Elliott

#20. I learned a long time ago ... admire a big horse, saddle a small one.

L.J. Martin

#21. He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

Paulo Coelho

#22. The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Jean Webster

#23. There are times when nothing holds the heart but a long, long look at Calvary. How very small anything that we are allowed to endure seems beside that Cross.

Amy Carmichael