Henry Selick Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.”

“No one's ever going to make a PG-13 animated film unless David Fincher executive produces it and puts it out on Netflix, and then if it's a success everyone will change.”

“You know, I love stop-motion. I've done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I've done cutout animation. I did a CG short a few years ago, 'Moongirl,' for young kids. Stop-motion is what I keep coming back to, because it has a primal nature. It can never be perfect.”

“We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Blue Sky to make a feature. But nobody is interested in a film that cost $50 to 60 million with the potential to do $120 million. They want to risk big money to make huge money.”

“Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.”

“If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.”

“Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.”

“I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.”

“Kids love to be scared - there's way to do it right, and ways to do it wrong.”

“People are very harsh critics of animated humans.”