Bill Plympton Quotes

#1. I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.

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#2. I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

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#3. If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.

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#4. Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

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#5. Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.

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#6. I think when writers play with dragons, we are simply doing what fantasy writers have always done.

Robin Hobb

#7. Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.

George L. Carlson

#8. Sure, I flip people off in traffic on occasion, but that's just Chicago. My

Blake Crouch

#9. Only a fool takes pride in pretending that a skill he doesn't possess is worthless.

Bernard Cornwell

#10. I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

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#11. I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

Stjepan Hauser

#12. I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night.

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#13. It's just me against the world.

Tupac Shakur

#14. Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

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#15. Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.

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#16. I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.

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#17. The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

Molly Ivins

#18. The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

Victor Hugo

#19. I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen.

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#20. People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.

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#21. I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.

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#22. A Oneness of all. An evolution in consciousness of us all that isn't about the egos.

Ram Dass

#23. Words Like Freedom
There are words like Freedom
Sweet and wonderful to say.
On my heartstrings freedom sings
All day everyday.
There are words like Liberty
That almost make me cry.
If you had known what I know
You would know why.

Langston Hughes

#24. America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

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#25. I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

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#26. I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

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#27. I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

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#28. I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.

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#29. Out," I instructed as I began peeling my clothes from my body. "I am going to pee for twenty-seven minutes, and then I'm going to shower for forty-two minutes, followed by scrubbing my teeth for sixty-one minutes.

Robyn Peterman

#30. My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.

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