Quotes by Henry Selick

Henry Selick

‘Coraline’ is Neil Gaiman’s book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.

Action

Book

Fans

Almost any modern video camera can take stills, so there’s always this fresh crop of kids that like making things and moving them by hand. So it’s as much our desire to keep it going as what we believe is the public’s desire for handmade stuff that really feels handmade, where they aren’t being tricked into it being handmade.

Believe

Kids

Moving

Anyone can buy CG technology. It’s not that it’s easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they’re incredibly hard to make.

Easy

Film

Technology

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

Believe

Horse

Kids

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

Creativity

Pressure

Thinking

I feel I’m just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it’s basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

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I feel like what we love to do is solve problems. If it’s easy to solve, we find a more difficult one. There’s always a way. In our world, we can build stuff. We can build more sets than you could ever build in live-action. We can build more props just for custom angles or perspectives. We’ll build special trees for that, paint a sky. There’s really no limitations, except that you run out of time and money at some point.

Perspective

Running

Tree

I get rewarded virtually every day with something amazing to see – whether it’s a new shot, a miniature sweater, someone who’s figured out how to make the hair look really great. We found a way to do the rain, finally. And mud. Make the trees. So I get to stay in constant motion as a director, you know, reviewing things. And there’s a lot to review.

Rain

Really Great

Tree

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with ‘House of Cards’ and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn’t happened there yet.

Creativity

House Of Cards

Thinking

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for. Stop-motion has a certain “grittieness” and is filled with imperfections, and yet their is an undeniable truth, that what you see really exits, even it if is posed by hand, 24 times a second. This truth is what I find most attractive about stop-motion animation.

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Imperfection

Truth Is

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Quotes by Henry Selick

Henry Selick

‘Coraline’ is Neil Gaiman’s book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It’s not that it’s easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they’re incredibly hard to make.

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

I feel I’m just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it’s basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

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