"The thing I always ask is “would you do this if you weren’t getting paid for it?” If the answer is yes, then you are ready to get to work." - Charles Maynes … [Read more...]
Fail
"If you take the audience out of the film because of bad sound design, then you have failed as a sound designer. It’s just that simple." - David Lewis Yewdall … [Read more...]
Exotic
"Anybody can make weird sounds easily, but it takes hard work and talent to come up with sounds that are exotic enough to put a useful twist on a scene, but organic enough to be entirely believable." -Randy Thom … [Read more...]
Accidents
"Think outside the box. That's why sound is fun. You keep your ears open, and if you hear something accidental, you can try to work it into the film. It happens all the time." -Ben Burtt … [Read more...]
Variation
"Sound comes to us over time. You don't get a snapshot of sound. Therefore, what you notice with sound, the essential building block, is change." - Gary Rydstrom … [Read more...]
Ego
"Lose the ego. Do great work and take pride in it, but don’t be arrogant about how great you think you are." - Chuck Russom … [Read more...]
Painter
"Like a painter, it’s not about the paint or the brushes you use, it’s about what you want to create first in your head. And then finding the right tools to achieve that goal." - Scott Martin Gershin … [Read more...]