Henry Selick Quotes
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.
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I am in a traditional financial services business - but we at Fidelity can see that the evolution of technology is setting our industry up for disruption. What if this technology could do for the transfer of value what the Internet did for the transfer of information?
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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Film is anti-language.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
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Tokyo in the late 1960s seemed to be like one of the futures that science fiction presents. Here was the proto- super-technology of the future, electronically, robotically, blahblahblah, intercut with traditional Japanese cultural patterns, Shinto patterns.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.
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We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.
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I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.
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I feel satisfied after achieving something difficult.
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When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.
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There's no honor in soccer.
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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
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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.
