Gerald Scarfe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.”

“I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.”

“How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.”

“Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.”

“Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.”

“I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.”

“And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.”

“So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.”