Douglas Trumbull Quotes

There’s a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn’t change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL’s eyes.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets – all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.