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People always say you can't win if you don't play
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
People
Play
Winning
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I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Cemetery
Perspective
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My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Home
Mom
Brother
Ran
Camera
Gotten
Super
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A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Artistry
Cartoon
Feels
People
Frame
Control People Feel
Painstaking
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One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Motivation
Persons
Series
Wells
Person Never Who
Explain
Motivations
Primary
Verbally
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The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Animation
Niche
Performances
Altogether
Save
So Much Time
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When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Attention
Last Time
Looks
Paid
People
Bright
Depressed
Some People
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Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Brain
Expression
Fancy
Ideas
Pants
Pure
Shut
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I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Positive
Attitude
Assumption
Balance
Reading
Positive Work Me
Amuse
Anyway
Attitudes
Operate
Personally
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When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Girl
Football
Pain
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When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Girl
Truth
Absurdity
Brown
Cartoon
Charlie
Comedy
Football
Pain
Peanuts
Red
Remember
Little
Charlie Brown
Down
Neither
Root
Where
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We made satires of everything - news broadcasts and TV shows that we watched. When I look at them now, they are totally amateurish, but I find it quite remarkable that we were so skeptical of the world! My parents watched them and thought they were funny; they really encouraged us.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Remarkable
Skeptical
Tv Shows
Watched
Encouraged
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I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Home
Cutting
Sleep
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I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!'
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Afternoon
One Minute
Home Me New
Central
Comedy Central
Cuts
Fast
Jump
Minute
Producer
Right Away
Sent
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Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.
Lev Yilmaz / Animator
Character
Comic
Fulfillment
Negative
Optimism
Perpetual
Sheer
Tenacity
Trying
Hidden
Regardless
Slightly
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