Ben Burtt Quotes

#1. There is a majesty in simplicity.

Alexander Pope

#2. Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more sympathy.

Ben Burtt

#4. Most sound people don't get the assignment to create worlds of sound and get freedom to try a lot of things and then get the scrutiny and support of the team over a long period of time.

Ben Burtt

#5. Filmmakers began to experiment with special effects almost as soon as motion pictures were invented. The history of special effects is the history of motion pictures.

Ben Burtt

#6. No man should live longer than his teeth.

George R R Martin

#7. For fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.

Jan Karon

#8. Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.

William J. Clinton

#9. If you were to hide the world in the world, so that nothing could get away, this would be the final reality of the constancy of things.

Zhuangzi