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All Quotes by author - Gore Verbinski
" All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world. "
World
Choice
More
" Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm? "
Right
Words
You
" Animation is a technique, not a genre. "
Technique
Genre
Animation
" Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens. "
Big
Glass
Drama
" Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much. "
Feel
Everyone
Always
" For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance. "
Performance
Actor
Moments
" Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty. "
Process
Honesty
Philosophy
" I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story. "
Story
Telling
Way
" I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great. "
Animated
Great
Would
" If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work. "
Glass
You
Yourself
" I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd. "
Think
Happy
Flying
" I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do. "
Just
Pursue
Growth
" I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time. "
End
You
Time
" I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic. "
Think
Movies
Logic
" I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it. "
Actor
See
I See
" I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data. "
Data
Love
Risk
" I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand. "
Comedy
Drama
Go
" I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path. "
Love
Path
Parents
" I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault. "
Circumstances
People
Think
" I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them. "
Think
People
More
" I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'. "
Know
Never
Say
" I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to create them right at the moment and look for something honest. "
Thought
You
Look
" It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked. "
Only
Gaming
Hollywood
" My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them. "
Work
Sit
Gone
" My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in. "
Phone
You
Up
" My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.' "
Think
Work
Thinking
" My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains. "
Respect
Ride
People
" Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything. "
Animation
Everything
You
" On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back. "
Unexpected
Things Happen
Feeling
" Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you. "
Think
Child
Family
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