Movie Scale Quotes

I have grown up reading Marvel Comics and Marvel movies with their intricately woven storylines. It is fascinating to see how Marvel has created characters and stories that resonate so well with audiences across the globe, making movies at a scale that one had never before imagined.

When you're making a bigger movie, you have much bigger set pieces that require more time and more effort and more people.

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

Intimacy between humans need not be relegated to independent film. Real characters can exist no matter what the scale of a movie is.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

The scale of 'Independence Day' is much more than 'Stargate.'

We have those new environments [during Kung Fu Panda 3] that give a scale to the movie, that are the spirit realm and the panda village. The spirit realm, having no gravity, having this massive space, allowed us to do huge action shots. All that we just couldn't do before. We just couldn't get the scale, we'd have to cheat them. This time we found ourselves more free.

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure.

Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.