Henry Selick
Henry Selick
Henry Selickis an American stop motion director, producer and writer who is best known for directing The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline. He studied at the Program in Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts, under the guidance of Jules Engel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth30 November 1952
CityGlen Ridge, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
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I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that's one of my strengths, because you have - every detail matters.
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Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.
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I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
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There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.
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As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.
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Cyclops, that's like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me.
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Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.
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There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.
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There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.
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Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.
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Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.
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We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.
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There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.
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'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.