Douglas Trumbull Quotes

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

I always wanted to design for films.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

Everyone wants to be a designer.

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it.

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.'

I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

I didn't think that personal style had much value in graphic design.

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;' I've been in that world, and you can just see people get nervous.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.