Dan Santat quotes

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television. Optimus Prime maybe?
-- Dan Santat

#Television #Saws #Derivatives

Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
-- Dan Santat

#Artist #Quiet #Folks

I was always fascinated with the idea that an imaginary friend was the perfect friend that a child created, and I wanted to play with the idea of a role reversal where the imaginary friend is waiting to find that perfect someone but has doubts about whether that day would ever come.
-- Dan Santat

#Children #Play #Ideas

I didn't have an imaginary friend, and even if I did I'm sure it would have been derivative of something I saw on television.
-- Dan Santat

#Television #Saws #Derivatives

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

There is no dignity in television.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

I'd seen 'Interview with A Vampire' and saw Dracula movies growing up, but I never thought, 'I love vampires; I have to do a show about vampires.'

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

The angel came, the angel saw, the angel fell.