John Knoll Talks Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

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| December 26, 2011 | 8:48 pm or 9:48 pm GMT

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from the AWN article:

Ordinarily, John Knoll, ILM's senior visual effect supervisor, wouldn't have returned for the fourth installment of the M:I franchise (he worked on the first back in 1996). There are only 700 VFX shots and most are invisible. But this offered the opportunity to work with Pixar's Brad Bird, who was making his first live-action movie. I spoke with Knoll about taking this mission.

Bill Desowitz: You've known Brad Bird for quite some time. But what was it like working with him?

John Knoll: He has all of the important characteristics of a good director: strong story sense, able to get good performances from your actors, and, at least what's' important from my point of view, he's got a good eye for shot composition and visual storytelling. And so, all of those features were on good display on this project. I figured that he would be surrounded by various folks with live-action experience that could get him through the things that are new to him. But the things that are hard to teach he already has very well mastered.

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