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Top 15 John Dykstra Quotes (2025 Update)

John Dykstra Quote: “If you can imagine it, we can make it.”

1. “If you can imagine it, we can make it.”

— John Dykstra

John Dykstra Quote: “I like engineering, but I love the creative input.”

2. “I like engineering, but I love the creative input.”

— John Dykstra

John Dykstra Quote: “If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.”

3. “If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.”

— John Dykstra

John Dykstra Quote: “You had to make a camera look like it’s traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn’t make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.”

4. “You had to make a camera look like it’s traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn’t make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.”

5. “Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.”

— John Dykstra

John Dykstra Quote: “It’s easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it’s very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.”

6. “It’s easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it’s very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he’s in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he’s swinging through the city.”

7. “In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny himself a relationship with a girl that he’s in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he’s swinging through the city.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.”

8. “George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn’t on a box.”

9. “Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn’t on a box.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.”

10. “Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses. An understanding of tactile and other components that go into the creation of those objects are important to making them look real on screen, like a plasma of energy.”

— John Dykstra

John Dykstra Quote: “Boy, am I glad there wasn’t a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.”

11. “Boy, am I glad there wasn’t a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.”

12. “I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.”

13. “As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.”

14. “Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “It’s very much like filmmaking always is-you’re always asked to do something that you’re not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that’s really good.”

15. “It’s very much like filmmaking always is-you’re always asked to do something that you’re not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that’s really good.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.”

16. “I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.”

17. “I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.”

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John Dykstra Quote: “I had done a lot of rock ‘n’ roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock ‘n’ roll bands.”

18. “I had done a lot of rock ‘n’ roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock ‘n’ roll bands.”

— John Dykstra

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