Top 21 Douglas Trumbull Quotes
#1. To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#2. My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
Douglas Trumbull
#3. It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons,
Vladimir Putin
#6. I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
Douglas Trumbull
#7. Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths
Muhammad Ali
#8. There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.
Douglas Trumbull
#9. The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.
Joanna Baillie
#10. The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.
Douglas Trumbull
#11. But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.
Douglas Trumbull
#12. Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
Douglas Trumbull
#13. If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town
William Faulkner
#14. I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.
Douglas Trumbull
#15. There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
Douglas Trumbull
#16. I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.
Jonathan Demme
#17. IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.
Douglas Trumbull
#18. 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.
Douglas Trumbull
#19. We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.
Douglas Trumbull
#20. It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
Douglas Trumbull
#21. My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.
Douglas Trumbull
