Walt Handelsman Quotes
Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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Thank God there is a such thing as hiatus. We got the first 'Dr. Horrible' done in six days, we banged it out.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.
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With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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Revision is the heart of writing. Every page I do is done over seven or eight times.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
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I think it's absolutely possible for any woman to use the moves I do with Lady Gaga. Just put on her 'Born This Way' video or turn on one of her songs, spend 20 minutes and get a routine down just by watching our choreography. You'll start to see a difference in your abs, legs and butt. Anyone can get great results from this.
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From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
