Henry Selick Quotes

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I never really thought that it was something you could do for a living; it never actually hit me that people do that sort of thing or I would be capable of it.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

To be a part of Laika's universe is an opportunity not to be passed up.

The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Heavy Metal' the movie, and my mind was blown. I loved the idea that you could have all these different stories in different styles that are linked together.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.