Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Bruce Lee

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Homaro Cantu

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

W. H. Auden

Sincerity is technique.

Robert Morgan

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Bill Bruford

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

Thomas Ligotti

I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.

David Shields

Genre is a minimum security prison,

Emraan Hashmi

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Alan Moore

Life isn't divided into genres

Bruce Willis

But the action film genre is gonna have to come up with some new bad guys.

Brion James

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Kathy Najimy

It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing.

William Ford

The process to create that type of animation is very tedious, ... We took all the steps and computerized it.

John Anastos

Let's say a young boy is going for a CAT scan. First, he gets to preview various animation themes. He chooses his favorite and takes a holographic RFID badge with a Philips ICODE chip. When he goes into the examination room, he waves the badge at the scanning equipment, and the walls and ceiling come to life with animations, accompanied by music and other sounds. It keeps him relaxed and it's a great way to give him instructions. When it's time for him to hold his breath, he sees a cartoon character holding his own breath!

Michael Henderson

Rich media is now important for the Internet, be it Java animation or audio, ... The time is right and the systems are in place to present rich media.

John Lasseter

One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all these people enjoy this film, and I thought: animation can do this.

Margaret Wertheim

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

Sam Craig

Certainly for Disney it's riskier than their standard animation film because it has a lot fewer merchandising opportunities. My guess is they'll at least break even. It's being introduced early in the season and there's not much out there competing with it. The other studios are staying away from it.

Hal Vogel

From a psychological standpoint, Chicken Little is very important for Disney. Everything is touched by animation and if they don't refresh it, it becomes frayed at the edges.

Richard Foreman

If anything, the talent from Burbank might have to move up to Emeryville. The animation center of the universe is moving to Emeryville.

Jodi Benson

I have a studio at my house, and there is a sister studio for Disney which is about 45 minutes away, and we haven't dropped a beat. In the art of animation and voiceover work, you can pretty much work from anywhere.