Roald Dahl Quotes

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

While studying art and design at Central Saint Martins, I went round supermarkets taking photos of shoppers and their baskets: the game was to match people with their food. For an architectural project, I made a scale model of a shop out of gingerbread rather than foam and added icing and sweets very colourfully.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

People make films for different reasons. For money. Or, they make them because something in them demands artistic expression. I do it because I enjoy the work.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

I also like different records of mine for creative purposes and metaphorically wise.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

I feel safe that theater will always serve women in different ages.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.