“When I got into the movie business, I had this discipline to get up and train because I was on the Army team, the armed forces team.”
“People are afraid to ask. I’m not afraid to ask for anything at this point. All they can do is say no. I think a lot of people get embarrassed to ask, and I’m like, ‘Oh, I’ll admit that I don’t have enough money and that I need help.'”
“That literally is just Star Trek. That is just the technicolor aesthetic and the neon colors. I wanted the aliens to feel like these pops of color in a drab world.”
“Fede really didn’t want a VFX movie. He wanted us all to come up with the best way to approach the problem, using practical, visual effects, and miniatures. All of that kind of stuff was kind of the directive at the beginning of the film. We never just leaned on the blue screen.”
“What I can tell you is that there’s a larger, bigger concept that’s buried beneath the whole story that no one has ever tapped in yet. Maybe this is something that we can talk about some years from now.”
“I think if you were in a room with people, and everyone said this, if in a room with Keith and Mick and Anita and Brian and everything, people noticed Anita first. She was a very unusual woman for that time, very independent, spoke five languages, traveled, didn’t look to the man to talk for her, didn’t really give two fucks about anything.”
“I think that it was fascinating because we approached it like a narrative movie. We’re telling a story and Albert’s the main character. He set me off to find every archival piece of footage I could find.”
“I like to think of it as archeological sound design. We have a lot of great tools these days to be able to do that pull apart stuff, and look at it visually in various ways. We have a bank of some of the original TOS sounds and we’ll try and use them and update them and get them a bit more modern because they’re all recorded on tape.”
The cinematographer behind “The Burning Mill” and “The Queen Who Ever Was” breaks down some of those episodes’ most thrilling moments.
“I love this current season. I think the story and the message are great, and I thought the performances were excellent. I just thought everybody every department, every person was functioning at such a high level this season.”