Famous Quotes & Sayings

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Conrad Hall

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Conrad Hall

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Chuck Close

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.

Dennis Muren

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

Dennis Muren

You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.

Dennis Muren

Steven and I have worked together a lot and I'm far ahead of the curve than most people in knowing what he wants, but he knows far more than I know about what's important for the story. So, most of the changes he will make will involve story changes.

Dennis Muren

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Dennis Muren

I took business classes as a back up but I made movies all the time. I would get my classes done in two days and then spend the rest of the time making my movies.

Dennis Muren

I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.

Dennis Muren

I just focus on one show, when this is over then I'll start looking at what is coming up.

Dennis Muren

And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.

Dennis Muren

I have never had trouble with any actor being able to visualise things. They are amazing. As long as you have your monster head on a long stick, so you can hold it up there and you can wave it around and let them see it and explain it to them, they are just great.

Dennis Muren

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.

They are only after my money, they are nothing for me.

I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life.

I never had any childhood, for the word means sunshine and freedom from care. I had a starved and pinched little childhood, as far as love and merriment go.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Robert Motherwell

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Robert Henri

It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

Robert Rauschenberg

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

Robert Rauschenberg

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.