Ray Harryhausen quotes
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“If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.”
-- Ray HarryhausenSource : Interview With Christopher Bahn, film.avclub.com. March 21, 2006.
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“Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.”
-- Ray HarryhausenSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.”
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“Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.”
-- Ray HarryhausenSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.”
-- Ray HarryhausenSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.”
-- Ray HarryhausenSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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“I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.”
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“There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.”
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“That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.”
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“I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.”
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“I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.”
-- Ray Harryhausen
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