Top 32 Harryhausen Quotes
#1. I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
Tim Burton
#2. I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.
Ray Harryhausen
#3. Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And I am sure that future generations of animators will continue to look to him for inspiration.
Joe Letteri
#4. I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
Ray Harryhausen
#6. As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'
Raymond E. Feist
#7. I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.
Ray Harryhausen
#8. He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.
Isabel Allende
#9. Life gives you everything you need; you may not know you need it when you get it, but it will always become apparent later. I
Lorraine Flaherty
#10. When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.
Ray Harryhausen
#11. She wouldn't be afraid of vampires as such: being rash and curious, she'd be the first into the forbidden crypt. But she wouldn't like the thought of Tin turning into one, or turning into anyone other than her idea of him. Meanwhile,
Margaret Atwood
#12. In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
Malala Yousafzai
#13. Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura. I didn't want to animate cosmic gowns. Most Medusas you see in the classics have flowing robes which would be mad to even try to animate.
Ray Harryhausen
#14. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.
Ray Harryhausen
#15. Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings.
Jay Leno
#16. I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.
Ray Harryhausen
#17. I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.
Ray Harryhausen
#18. I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
Steven Erikson
#19. So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.
Ray Harryhausen
#20. Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!
Warren Spector
#21. I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm ...
Venita VanCaspel
#22. I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.
Peter Jackson
#23. You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.
Ray Harryhausen
#24. Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.
Jose Saramago
#25. I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.
Nick Park
#26. Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.
Ray Harryhausen
#27. I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen
#28. That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
Ray Harryhausen
#29. My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Jackson Pollock
#30. When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But thank God we got to go through the magic of seeing it before we knew how it was done. You were able to get this beautiful, pure, visceral response to something without knowing too much about it.
Tim Burton
#31. Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.
Ray Harryhausen
#32. The bottom line is I've never had anybody bark at me in a mall with malicious intent. Everybody who barks at the kid from Cleveland is to let him know, "I know who you are." It's always a positive thing.
Arsenio Hall
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