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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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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Donna Grant

"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."

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Donna Grant

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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Donna Grant

"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."

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Donna Grant

"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."

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Donna Grant

"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

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

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

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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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