“I’m not selling architecture, I’m not selling decoration. I’m seeing and realizing the image. The very fact that it is designed, literally, not to be seen, means it takes a certain type of person. Perhaps it’s best described as a magician’s illusion. You’re looking right at it, but if you are aware of it, it means you are not suspending your disbelief. Admiring it is a very distant cousin to believing it.”
Born in 1952, Rick Carter grew up in Los Angeles surrounded by the movie industry—his father was a publicist for the actor Jack Lemmon—but took a while to come to the world of film himself. A conscientious objector to the ...
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