John Dykstra Quotes

I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.