For my dearest darling, treasured, cherished Agatha whom I worship. With respect, adoration, admiration, kisses, gratitude, best wishes, and love from Z to A.
Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.
I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience.
The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.
One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.
When you’re doing a live-action movie, you have your day set up and you’re going to do this shot and this shot, and eventually the sun is going to go down. It’s a sequential race to whatever is going to end the day.
A prototype is always more expensive than anything.
People often call and say: “Can you help me to get Bill Murray in our movie.” But I’m always like, “well I don’t know how to do that!” I’ve sometimes tried and not been able to get him but then I’ll suddenly be very surprised by the thing that he will suddenly decide to do.
The things that are more my own style are something that I don’t really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.
The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don’t have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.
Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That’s always essential to me.
When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They’re tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They’re watching TV.
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.
I’ve always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.
You’re looking so well, darling. You really are. They’ve done a marvelous job. I don’t know what sort of cream they’ve put on you down at the morgue, but I want some. Honestly, you look better than you have in years. You look like you’re alive!
There’s really no point in doing anything in life because it’s all over in the blink of an eye. The next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.
Who’s to say? But he didn’t deserve to die.
She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!
Well, you can say that about most anything, “it depends”. Of course, it depends. – M. Gustave.
Maybe with good luck we’ll find what eluded us in the places we once called home.