Best Tintin Quotes

#1. Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go.

Henry Selick

#2. By going into third world countries and serving, by actually feeding and helping people, I've been led to focus a little more on how people here try to be happy by ignoring other people who are unhappy.

Ram Dass

#3. Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that something like 75 per cent of the world knows the 'Tintin' books.

Andy Serkis

#4. We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

#5. It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!

Herge

#6. Either they fall down, or they make me look like Tintin," Ben complained. "It's all right for Fritz - he's the same shape as those plastic blokes in the window.

Kate Saunders

#7. From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt of doing, based on the Tintin paradigm: on my toes, travelling, senses attentuated, everything just adventure and exploration, curiosity and problem-solving.

Luke Davies

#8. What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

Herge

#9. France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's for.

James May

#10. But that any other eyes should see the residue of her thirty-three years, the deposit of each day's living mixed with something more secret than she had ever spoken or shown in the course of all those days was an agony. At the same time it was immensely exciting.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I play a character called Lieutenant Delcourt who, in the original comics, pops up from time to time to rescue Tintin. I guess if you've grown up watching movies like 'Jaws' and 'Indiana Jones,' it's pretty surreal to find yourself on set with Steven Spielberg directing you.

Tony Curran

#12. While you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. Tintin! Are you dead? Say yes or no but answer me!

Jennifer Ziemba

#14. Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.

Bobby Ghosh

#15. Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

Michael Ignatieff

#16. If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

Pedro Martinez

#17. Doctor Simons? This is Thomson... No, without a 'P', as in Venezuela...

Herge

#18. A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

Mary Shelley

#19. I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.

Steven Spielberg

#20. I know a lot of games have been going to the facial capture. And movies like 'TinTin' are using it, as well.

Nolan North

#21. Thomson: "Just our luck! The one time we manage to catch the culprits they turn out to be innocent! It's really too bad of them!"
Thompson: "You'd think they'd done it on purpose!

Herge

#22. Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.

Joey Lawsin

#23. I saw 'Tintin' in Europe - it is 'Indiana Jones' on steroids. Unbelievable. What a fantastic movie. Steven Spielberg, you rock the house. And working with those young English guys like Edgar Wright, and also Peter Jackson; what a great combination.

Harvey Weinstein

#24. Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!

Herge

#25. Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#26. In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

Andy Serkis