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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
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"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s."
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"I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in."
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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
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"It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really."
People
"Over the course of those 12 episodes we discarded what didn't work and kept what did and that refined it."
Work
"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."
Idea
"I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny."
Funny
"Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long."
Time
"But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects."
Work
"There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere."
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"The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment."
People
"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
Animation
"When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle."
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