Animator Quote by Wayne White

“I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!”

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I'm neurotic in the sense that I can have a crowd of 300 people cheering you, applauding you, standing O, but one guy come…

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I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to do. I…

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I had to learn to do stuff only for myself, and stop thinking about pleasing some imaginary client or boss. It's a habit that…

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Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like…

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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.

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I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that…

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I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to…

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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures…

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No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience…

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I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.

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I want to reach out and entertain people. I want people to come to a museum that have never been in a museum before.…

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Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

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“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.”

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Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the…

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Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

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