and 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 Odyssey and l 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, inthe end we found a way and Star Wars was a massive blockbuster. we made two more Star Wars films, and l had a great time working on the lndiana jones movies, but then along came jurassic Park in 1993 and that changed everything.
Computer animstion 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 CGl computer generated imaging and l think some people forgot that fimls still need imagination. l 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 computer nimated films like shrek. sometimes l 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?