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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There's this long tradition of... even 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which many people consider the best kids' picture book of all time. It was considered revolutionary, and some libraries wouldn't carry it. But it's a classic because it taps into empowerment for kids, kids facing dangers and winning.
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Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.
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I think stop-motion has always been semi-obsolete. And stop-motion animators - people like myself - love it so much that we're always going to be looking for new ways to make our films.
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People are always telling me that boys won't go to girls' movies and vice versa. It's not true.
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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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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 definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.
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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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People are very harsh critics of animated humans.
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I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.
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People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.
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What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.
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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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Unless you have kids, you actually have no idea what kids are watching on TV these days.