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Gore Verbinski

(1964) Film Director United States

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Gore Verbinski is a film director from the United States, best known for Mouse hunt.

Quick Facts About Gore Verbinski

Born: March 16, 1964
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Director
Notable works: Mouse hunt
Known for: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Rango

About Gore Verbinski

Gregor Justin "Gore" Verbinski is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and musician. He is best known for directing Mouse Hunt (1997), The Ring (2002), the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films, Rango (2011), and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Award for Best Animated Feature BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production

Quotes by Gore Verbinski · Page 2

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene,…

Accident

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I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

Learning

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My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who…

Days

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Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two…

Awaken

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On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount…

Action movie

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There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell…

Animated

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Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when…

Bad

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My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I…

Act

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My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same…

Actor

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I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Lying

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I'd like to think that if you find your audience there are still opportunities there to go and tell an original story.

Audience

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I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a…

Comfort

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I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

Growth

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My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get…

Achieve

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For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor.…

Action

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Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big,…

Bigs

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I want to diagnose the audience a bit and then offer a cure.

Audience

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I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Animated

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I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre,…

Archetype

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“Nobody move! I dropped me brain!”

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