Henry Selick Quotes

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.

Henry Selick

• Believe
• Kids
• Car
• Horse
• Imagine
• Communicate

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• It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Attention
  • Question
  • Television

• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Thought
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Find
  • Now
  • Series

• I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Color

• I've always been a fan of Coldplay.

  

  Brynn Cartelli

• 'I Get Around' came on one day. I'd never heard the Beach Boys before. The sound was so fresh to me. That was the first time when I truly was gripped by the power of music. It opened my eyes to the heights that music can achieve.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Time
  • Music
  • Power

• I can enjoy myself and express myself in the ring.

  

  Katie Taylor

• I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Real
  • Guy

• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • Power

• I've always found that acting has been quite a hard thing to pre-manage because so much of it is spontaneous and the circumstances so uncontrolled.

  

  Max Minghella

• Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children
  • Real
  • Parents

• I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a list of things I need to get done every day. Sometimes it's just mixing, sometimes it's actually writing, sometimes it's writing, recording, and mixing. It all depends on what is necessary that day.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

  

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  • Up

• Immigration is the most explosive issue I've seen in my political career.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Career
  • Political
  • Immigration

• We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

  

  Bobby Farrelly Boney M.
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Dad

• I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

  

  Douglas Davis
  • Family
  • Age
  • Father

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Important
  • American
  • Movie

• If I got a girlfriend, I’d feed her playfully all of the time.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Time
  • Girlfriend

• What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Music
  • Mean

• I suppose it's nice that I've made films that some people have heard of and respect. That's great. And it's certainly helpful in some regards, but they're really tough economic prospects. They always have been, and that's not necessarily getting any better. And not just the films, but it's also been a rough 10 years for that independent film market. And so I have stumbled onto this point in the timeline where the kind of stuff that I'm trying to do is not... it was a lot easier to know what to do with it 20 years ago.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Independent
  • Economic
  • Films

• 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.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Car