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Ray Harryhausen

"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 that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires."

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"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 that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires."

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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

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"Looper is another great film."

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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."

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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."

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"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"

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"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary."

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"A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now."

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"I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire."

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Ray Harryhausen
"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 full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos."

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Ray Harryhausen
"I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation."

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Ray Harryhausen
"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 in as if they were intelligently guided."

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Ray Harryhausen
"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 that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires."

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Ray Harryhausen
"I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today."

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Ray Harryhausen
"That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people."

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Ray Harryhausen
"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school."

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Ray Harryhausen
"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 now the value of them as educational."

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Ray Harryhausen
"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 was doing by myself."

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