Gore Verbinski famous quotes

04-24-2025

Animation is a technique, not a genre.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Technique #Genre #Animation
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Kids #Play #Twists
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Thinking #People #Faults
The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Blue #Balls #Incredibles
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?
-- Gore Verbinski

#Different #Lines #Digital
I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Thinking #Growth #Not Sure
I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Thinking #Parent #Path
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Believe #Technique #Stories
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Choices #Progress #World
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Awkward #Actors #Return
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Honesty #Philosophy #Thinking
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Kids #Thinking #Python
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Thinking #Data #Risk
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Mistake #Space #Hollywood
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Stories #Way #Animated
Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Dream #Answers #Want
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Thinking #People #Comfort
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Reading #Sound #Strange
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Drama #Glasses #Lenses
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Phones #Directors #Gone
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Thinking #Facts #Logic
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.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Drama #Thinking #Hands
I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Lying #Thinking
Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Animation
My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Mean #Thinking #Pirate
I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.
-- Gore Verbinski

#Adventure #Would Be #Animated
I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear
-- Gore Verbinski

#Ironic #Overcoming #Stories

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