Signe Quotes

#1. A long tongue is a signe of a short hand.
[A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]

George Herbert

#2. For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

Edmund Spenser

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

Signe Baumane

#4. 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.

Signe Baumane

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

Signe Baumane

#6. 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.

Signe Baumane

#7. 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.

Signe Baumane

#8. 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.

Signe Baumane

#9. 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.

Signe Baumane

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

Signe Baumane

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

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#12. There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

Eric Jensen

#13. Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame

Tom Morello

#14. 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.

Signe Baumane

#15. Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Lynne Rae Perkins

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

Signe Baumane

#17. It looked like GQ was having a convention and all the best looking guys had decided to have a coffee at Fortnum's before going to seminars on how to cope with being really, unbelivably, fucking gorgeous

Kristen Ashley

#18. 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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#19. 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.

Signe Baumane

#20. I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it.

Simon Taylor-Davis

#21. 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.

Signe Baumane

#22. We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago.

Piet Hein

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

Signe Baumane

#24. 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.

Signe Baumane

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

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