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It was lights, camera, inaction.
Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.
Hyperbole is something I'd better avoid.
I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.
I can feel my dreams but I can't remember them.
I have always got medicine I want to give to people.
Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
I've always sworn that not having enough money has saved me from mediocrity.
I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!
I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.
Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.
My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.
Gorillaz virtually changed my wife...sorry, I mean, life...no, actually, it was my wife.
It's 85 million dollars and they got to be really careful because they are going to need me.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.
I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.
I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!
I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.
I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.
I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.
I'm overwhelmed by writers. Most people aren't impressed by writers, but if you can draw a cartoon or a picture, they think you're magic.
Now, anybody can make a movie, and I don't see that many great movies, because I think there's only a limited amount of talent out there.
The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work... Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.
I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
I was getting frustrated with America. It's interesting how as simple a thing as, like, letting your hair grow longer changed in the world in those days.
It's the shock of the world if you allow yourself to disconnect from the world and forget it's out there, how noisy it is, how busy it is, how invasive it is.
Everybody gets excited about technology, but it doesn't interest me in the least. I'm only interested in it if it makes my job easier or cheaper. They're tools.
In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.
I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.
You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.
It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.
The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.
We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.
It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits.
You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.
People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.
All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.
The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.