Steven Spielberg pays tribute to Sam Neill
“I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park”
“Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children”
“I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him. Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world”
The opening of TOY STORY 2 (1999) is one of Pixar’s greatest fake-outs.
It begins like an epic space adventure with Buzz Lightyear, only to reveal it was Rex frantically button-mashing a video game the entire time.