Ray Harryhausen Quotes

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• There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring…
• If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.
• That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
• I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so…
• Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her…
• I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
• I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
• I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.
• I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.
• I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I…
• I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character…
• Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have…
• So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize…

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