Signe Baumane Quotes

#1. I would never jump under a subway car because that would delay all the people behind me. How inconsiderate!

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#2. I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass jar!) and instantly incorporate it in a project. It makes me feel creative on an every day basis.

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#3. By using formula in filmmaking we are admitting that film is not art.

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#4. In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

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#5. Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.

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#6. I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

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#7. Once an audience feels that you trust them like you trust a friend, they do become your friends.

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#8. I always knew that I wanted to be a writer. I think I was six or seven when I learned how to read, and I still remember it.

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#9. The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

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#10. Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

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#11. I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.

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#12. With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I don't have to communicate my idea to anyone else, I can keep the feeling of the story, the story arc and structure in my head.

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#13. The fantastical images in my works are descriptive in a different way - a metaphorical way - that removes you from reality. Then, this visually removed point of view allows you to deal with a very heavy subject.

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#14. I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

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#15. There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

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#16. When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.

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#17. What inspires me is when I see something and I say, "I can do that too!"

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