that was all the encouragement l needed. l finally got into the film business. in the 70s. Stanley Kubrick had amazed everybody with his beautiful film 2001: A Space 0dyssey and 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 l 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 l had a greattime working on the Indiana Jones movies, but then along came Jurassic Park in 1993 and that changed everything. Computer animation had been around for a long time, but now we could make any kind of creature we wanted. Suddenly, it seemed like every film had to have CGI (computer generated imaging) and I think some people forgot that films stil need imagination. I enjoy films like The Lord of the Rings trilogy because they've got drama and emotion as well as great special effects, but my kids like computer animated films like Shrek. Sometimes try to imagine what kind of films they'll be watching when they're older, but then l look back at how far we've already come. Who could have dreamed any of this would really happen?