Quotes by Gerald Scarfe - Page 1

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Book
Done
Years
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How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
War
Feels
Wells
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England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
England
Incredibly
Seemed
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Bed
Childhood
Children
Fatherhood
Asthmatic
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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Sad
War
Majority
People
Want
Extremely
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Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Animation
Drawing
Kind
Movement
Series
Complete
Drawings
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I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Computer
Disney
Drawings
Painted
Recently
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And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Bombs
Frightened
Gas
Roger
Running Away
Immediately
Masks
Talks
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You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Literal
Designed
Visualize
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I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Sad
War
Drawing
Vietnam
Wars
Draw
Several
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So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Running
War
Army
Run
Rest
Forced
Join
Soldiers
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Artist
Computer
Past
Thinking
Experiences
Receives
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So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Frightened
Mask
Beneath
Heads
Hide
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All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Ears
Faces
Gas
Mask
Mickey
Attack
Case
Germans
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
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And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Time Work Me
Album
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And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Diamond
England
Hendrix
Complex
Neil
Neil Diamond
Popular
Soundtrack
Um
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I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Me Nothing Know
Develop
Disney
Exists
Hercules
Script
Sent
Shall
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And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
Gerald Scarfe / Cartoonist
Animation
Blue
Blue Sky
Children
Deals
Goodbye
Sky
Wall
Suffered
Directly
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