Over the years, I’ve travelled through 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 along came Jurassic Park in 1993 and that changed everything.