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Signe Baumane

(1964) Writer

25 quotes in 228 categories

Signe Baumane is a writer.

Quick Facts About Signe Baumane

Born: August 7, 1964
Profession: Writer

About Signe Baumane

[Wikidata] Latvian animator and illustrator... | [Wikipedia] Signe Baumane is a Latvian animator, artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was a 2005 Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is also a teacher, having taught animatio

Quotes by Signe Baumane

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

Ability

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I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

Behinds

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Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's…

Able

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I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was…

Art

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I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass…

Bases

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Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets…

Accents

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In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts…

Accepting

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There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

Art

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Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

Actors

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I try not to think of myself as a woman filmmaker. I don't look for women influences. I have noticed in the…

Believe

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By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

Admitting

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I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment…

Appeals

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Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

Audience

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I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I…

Animated

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I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to…

Remember

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I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation…

Adults

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With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I…

Animator

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I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the…

Behinds

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When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they…

Bother

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When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I…

Audience

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The fantastical images in my works are descriptive in a different way - a metaphorical way - that removes you from reality.…

Deals

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The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches…

Able

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Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long…

Animation

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What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

Can do

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Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading…

Book

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