Quotes by Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt

After working so long on something like this, it’s great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn’t just working in a cave by myself for no reason…

Caves

Long

People

But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I’ve been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that’s coming up, and I took to it really quickly.

Different

Trying

Years

Fighting a cold, but I’m powering through. As they say, there’s nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

Cold

Fighting

Interviews

I have friends and illustrators who can’t stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There’s a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It’s like drawing on glass. But that didn’t bother me at all.

Drawing

Glasses

Missing

I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.

Careers

Mistake

Years

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it’s – when it’s ideally done right, it’s a reflection on ourselves.

Fiction

Reflection

Thinking

I’d love to start some movements. What I’m tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

Mean

Sarcasm

Tired

I’ll have a sentence in my head that’s kind of beautiful and interesting, but I’m not sure why or where it’s coming from. So it’s kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it’s the exact opposite of my film school experience.

Beautiful

Opposites

School

I’m a bit of a weird creature… I’m self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it’s unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I’ve sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.

Art

School

Thinking

I’m still learning. I’ve never done a digital project before. And I’m pretty sure I did things to the software that weren’t supposed to be done.

Digital

Done

Projects

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Annoying

Art

Beautiful

Benefits

Bored

Careers

Caves

Character

Cities

Coats

Cold

Different

Digital

Done

Drawing

Fiction

Fighting

Film

Filmmaking

Fun

Glasses

Gun

Hurt

Imagine

Interviews

Laughing

Long

Made

Matter

Mean

Memories

Missing

Mistake

Opposites

People

Personality

Projects

Purpose

Real

Red

Reflection

Representing

Running

Sarcasm

School

Stories

Strange

Stuff

Teenager

Thinking

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Quotes by Don Hertzfeldt

Don Hertzfeldt

After working so long on something like this, it’s great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn’t just working in a cave by myself for no reason…

But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I’ve been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that’s coming up, and I took to it really quickly.

Fighting a cold, but I’m powering through. As they say, there’s nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

I have friends and illustrators who can’t stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There’s a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It’s like drawing on glass. But that didn’t bother me at all.

I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it’s – when it’s ideally done right, it’s a reflection on ourselves.

I’d love to start some movements. What I’m tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

I’ll have a sentence in my head that’s kind of beautiful and interesting, but I’m not sure why or where it’s coming from. So it’s kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it’s the exact opposite of my film school experience.

I’m a bit of a weird creature… I’m self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it’s unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I’ve sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.

I’m still learning. I’ve never done a digital project before. And I’m pretty sure I did things to the software that weren’t supposed to be done.

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