It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
My name is Raquel Welch. I am here for visual effects, and I have two of them.
The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.
Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.
The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.
You set up the look, the visual effects and the sets, and that's awesome, but I enjoy the casting most of all. That's where you really get to define the show.
After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.
