Plympton Quotes

#1. 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.

Bill Plympton

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

Bill Plympton

#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.

Bill Plympton

#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.

Bill Plympton

#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.

Bill Plympton

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

Bill Plympton

#7. Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#8. Why do you keep coming back here, Belinda Swanson?" Adam asked coolly. "I must be so fascinating to you." Deliberately,

Richie Tankersley Cusick

#9. I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

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

Bill Plympton

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

Bill Plympton

#12. 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.

Bill Plympton

#13. He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up.

Darren Shan

#14. You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

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

Bill Plympton

#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.

Bill Plympton

#17. there is no honour among consultants.

Neal Stephenson

#18. Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second

Victor Hugo

#19. How to Anesthetize theM asses [10w]
Build more shopping malls and get rid of the internet.

Beryl Dov

#20. And then one day the walls of your house finally collapse. If the door is still standing, however, all you have to do is walk through it,and you are back inside. It's pleasant sleeping out under the stars. Never mind the rain. It can't last very long.

Paul Auster

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

Bill Plympton

#22. 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.

Bill Plympton

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

Bill Plympton

#24. 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.

Bill Plympton

#25. I want to have kids. I want to get married. That is still very important to me.

Katherine Jenkins

#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.

Bill Plympton

#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.

Bill Plympton

#29. 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.

Bill Plympton