Douglas Trumbull

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. ”

I took IMAX public back in the early '90s. ”

I'd formed a research and development company under the banner of Paramount Pictures back in about 1975, and its mandate was to explore advanced forms of entertainment, not just movies. ”

2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah. ”

The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don't see any particular benefit. ”

If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different. ”

Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering. ”

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery. ”

It's not appropriate to a love story, or - there are a million stories you could think of that don't need 3D. A lot of movies don't even need color! ”

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. ”