List of Ray Harryhausen Quotes

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Ray Harryhausen
Total Quotes 18
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.
Action Scene Stage
I took courses at usc in film editing and art direction and photography when i was still in high school.
Photography Art School
I still go to the conventions, and i like to hear the point of view of people today. i'm a little afraid they're being brainwashed by this new pop-culture. i think it's not really elevating our lives like it did in the good old days of hollywood, where you had a happy ending. they used to criticize happy endings, but really, what's the point of going to a film if you have to come out hating your fellow man?
Hate Men Thinking
That's why i never became a director. i never had patience with people.
Patience People Directors
Today, they make films where you have to sit for an hour and a half and watch somebody in the process of dying and, for me, that's rather depressing. films, in the good old days of the golden age of hollywood, used to want to inspire people and give them uplift. you're paying good money to see a film, and you don't want to leave depressed!
Uplifting Depressing People
I brought in the stories many times. i don't just do animation.
Stories Animation
Many people are under the delusion that i'm just a special-effects man, but i've worn many different hats in my day. on every film i've been involved in, i worked with the writer and producer. we really formulated those scripts. we tried to make films that were logical but still had the fantasy feel of it. i enjoy aardman animation's films with wallace and gromit, but they're obvious puppet films, whereas we tried to disguise it and make our effects characters in the films rather than obvious puppets.
Character Men People
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.
Kings New York Tired
One film critic back in the early days said "it's a pity mr. harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."
Film Pity Animated
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.
Believe Fighting Past
The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.
Film
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.
Coffee Phones Asking
  • Born: June 29, 1920
  • Died: May 7, 2013
  • Occupation: Writer
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