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.

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.

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.

True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

I had stopped doing anything for myself. I no longer felt like an individual because for thirteen years, I was one-half of a “we.

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

Sexuality shouldn't define you. It should be part of who you are.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.