over the years, I've travelled thorugh time, breathed life back into dinosaurs and blown up entire planets. Today, I work at industrial light & magic, but my interest in special effects goes back to my childhood. i remember seeing the alien in The war of the worlds zap some soldiers with a ray gun and i thought to myself, " I want to do that." My father had a home movie camera and i filmed my brother pretending to be a soldier. Then I filmed some fireworks exploding. My mum went crazy when she saw it, but my dad thought it was really funny and That was all the encouragement I needed . I finally got into the film business in the 70s. Stanley Kubrick had amazed everybody with his beautiful film 2001: A Space Odyssey and I found myself working on a similar film for a young guy called George Lucas. He kept talking about robots, or swords made out of light, and superfast spaceships, and I kept saying, “ Sure,George, but how are we going to make it?” Well, in the end we found a way and star Wars was a massive blockbuster. We made two more Star Wars films, and I had a great time working on the Indiana jones movies, but then aling came Jurassic park in 1993 and that changed everything