Top 35 Gore Verbinski Quotes

#1. I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

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#2. If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

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#3. My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

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#4. My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

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#5. Nobody move! I dropped me brain!

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#6. The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

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#7. I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear

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#8. I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

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#9. I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

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#10. 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 process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that process with honesty.

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#11. Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

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#12. On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.

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#13. I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

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#14. I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

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#15. When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.

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#16. I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

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#17. I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

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#18. I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

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#19. It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

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#20. Drama is drama, and it's really ... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

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#21. I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.

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#22. Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

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#23. For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

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#24. Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

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#25. I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it.

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#26. Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

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#27. All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

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#28. My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains.

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#29. I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

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#30. I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

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#31. Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

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#32. There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

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#33. I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

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#34. Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.

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#35. Animation is a technique, not a genre.

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