Rick Baker Quotes

My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself.

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

Many times in music, if you are given limitations, it expands the creativity.

You can do anything when it's not real.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.

I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else. My parents also took me to ballet school, and there I think I was able to start communicating those feelings or emotions - I danced for so many years.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

An empty canvas is full.

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.