Henry Selick

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

— Henry Selick

It's nice to be taken seriously.

— Henry Selick

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no…

— Henry Selick

Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.

— Henry Selick

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

— Henry Selick

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to…

— Henry Selick

Underneath this tired, middle-aged exterior, I'm an 11 year old kid.

— Henry Selick

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

— Henry Selick

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

— Henry Selick

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge…

— Henry Selick

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion…

— Henry Selick

Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or…

— Henry Selick

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly…

— Henry Selick

Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was…

— Henry Selick

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact…

— Henry Selick

'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live…

— Henry Selick

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more…

— Henry Selick

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a…

— Henry Selick

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and…

— Henry Selick

Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there's a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and…

— Henry Selick

Almost any modern video camera can take stills, so there's always this fresh crop of kids that like making things and moving…

— Henry Selick

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared…

— Henry Selick

There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all…

— Henry Selick

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion…

— Henry Selick

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very…

— Henry Selick

I think it's important that kids see another kid - Coraline - who doesn't have guns, she doesn't have super-powers, she's not…

— Henry Selick

I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments.…

— Henry Selick

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

— Henry Selick

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

— Henry Selick

While I was making 'Coraline' I barely got to see any films at all, so I've got a lot of catching up…

— Henry Selick

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it…

— Henry Selick

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

— Henry Selick

Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.

— Henry Selick

People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.

— Henry Selick

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

— Henry Selick

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

— Henry Selick

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to…

— Henry Selick

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist…

— Henry Selick

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think…

— Henry Selick

I think stop-motion has always been semi-obsolete. And stop-motion animators - people like myself - love it so much that we're always…

— Henry Selick