No one’s ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it’s a success everyone will change. Henry Selick Read Quote
In all animation, if it’s done quickly, you’ll know it. And if you’re very slow and careful with it, it’s going to look a little more beautiful. It’s just compressing time into seconds. Henry Selick Read Quote
When you’re writing, it’s all up to you, and you don’t have to make any compromises. And when you’re directing, there’s this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making. Henry Selick Read Quote
Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what’s right there in front of you. Henry Selick Read Quote
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. Henry Selick Read Quote
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, ‘Tom and Jerry,’ and of course Disney. And also by Fellini’s ‘Giulietta of the Spirits’ and Kurosawa’s ‘Ran.’ And by other American illustrators and painters. Henry Selick Read Quote
There’s the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There’s this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and generally they’re safe. But if you look at Walt Disney’s original films, at the time and in the context, they weren’t safe. They were really dark and troubling. Henry Selick Read Quote
What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object. Henry Selick Read Quote
Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there’d be no point in it. Henry Selick Read Quote
You know, I love stop-motion. I’ve done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I’ve done cutout animation. I did a CG short a few years ago, ‘Moongirl,’ for young kids. Stop-motion is what I keep coming back to, because it has a primal nature. It can never be perfect. Henry Selick Read Quote
