Top 29 Macgillivray Quotes
#2. Marine scientists predict that by 2050 there will be no more large fish left in the ocean if we don't change our relationship with the sea.
Greg MacGillivray
#3. With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no film weaving through a machine. And there's no dust and no scratching.
Greg MacGillivray
#4. There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.
Greg MacGillivray
#5. We have new tools that can give the audience a sense of not only being there, which is the key element in an IMAX film, but also seeing things in a way that they won't see on television or in feature films.
Greg MacGillivray
#6. I've long been a fan of IMAX nature documentaries, but Humpback Whales, directed by Greg MacGillivray, is something special.
Joe Morgenstern
#7. There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.
George Gordon Byron
#8. I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.
Greg MacGillivray
#9. My job is to find the stories, find where to go, do the research, do the logistics, be there on location, and do as much as possible to get the footage that we need to make an incredible film.
Greg MacGillivray
#10. In a normal movie, the director controls what you look at. The shots don't last very long because you're getting the audience to look at specific things. An IMAX shot, on the other hand, can be twenty or thirty seconds long.
Greg MacGillivray
#11. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Morihei Ueshiba
#12. Never use the phrase: 'buy my book' - ever.
Heather Hart
#13. What I love about IMAX is that, when you're in an IMAX theater, in a museum, science center or aquarium, it's eight stories tall and it's immersive, and you can see it in 3D, you really feel like you're being transported to that place.
Greg MacGillivray
#14. 'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.
Greg MacGillivray
#16. Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
Aaron Swartz
#17. Film has far more color shades. It's called 'bit depth' in digital terms. And most bit depth in digital is about twelve, but film bit depth can be twenty to thirty. And so you just have more shades of yellow and red and oranges and everything.
Greg MacGillivray
#18. Flying through a hurricane is the most fearsome shaking you will ever get. Everything has to be tied down in the airplane. And the IMAX camera has to be rock-steady through all this. We had to design special mounts on the left and right sides of the cabin and in the cockpit to hold the cameras.
Greg MacGillivray
#19. My goal is that after seeing 'Grand Canyon,' every person in the audience will go home knowing they have to conserve water: even something as simple as installing a low-flow toilet or showerhead, or turning off the faucet while they're brushing their teeth.
Greg MacGillivray
#20. You can feel creative tension when you sense the freedom to be creative, the harmony not via compliance only, but through brainstorming.
Pearl Zhu
#21. When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
Cybill Shepherd
#22. He pulled her against his chest, letting her feel his heart thunder its rhythm. Kissing her hair he whispered, the desperation raw, "You are no dream...but flesh and blood. Tell me you are real...oh, please...be real." "Aye, I am real.
Deborah MacGillivray
#23. At first, the tornado is nearly invisible. Against the sky, it's white on white.
Greg MacGillivray
#24. What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.
Greg MacGillivray
#25. The ocean is our planet's life support system, yet in my travels and at home, I've seen its degradation firsthand.
Greg MacGillivray
#26. I've been using the power of the IMAX medium, with its gigantic screens and supervivid pictures, to get people to fall in love with the ocean.
Greg MacGillivray
#27. Happiness now sometimes meant turning away from what one remembered of earlier, better happiness.
Gregory Maguire
#29. Except forget it happened on Monday, right? And I can kiss you, but I don't know if I can hold your hand. And I can kiss you, but I can't ask you questions. Forget it, Parker. If you're too afraid to start anything, just forget it.
Courtney Summers
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