September
2010
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"My next movie will have to tell a tragic story about a boy. That's why I want to escape to Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie. It should be interesting. It's set during the Spanish Civil War. I can really understand how 20th century literature captured the tragic characteristics of boys." — Hayao Miyazaki on his plans to make a sequel to his 1992 feature Porco Rosso |
August
2010
“That quivering identity seems very ordinary in Japan, which does not have an absolute religion like Christianity, but multiple nature gods and goddesses. I'm sitting in L.A., answering your questions, but in my mind, I may be remembering work left in Tokyo and wondering what's going to be for lunch today. Other people cannot experience that. So the experiences of the heroines in Millennium Actress and Perfect Blue could not normally be shared with an audience.” — Acclaimed Japanese anime director Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) from a 2007 Los Angeles Times interview |
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July
2010
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“I
didn’t set out to make a ‘successful’ show... I tried to make a show that I wanted to see on the air. I figured there was a good possibility that the viewers wouldn’t get it. My attitude was that I’d rather fail trying something new than fail making something old.” —Steve Hillenburg—creator of SpongeBob SquarePants in Joe Murray’s new book, Creating Animated Cartoons with Character [Watson-Guptill Publications, $24.99] |
June
2010
“It
was at a supermarket in Los Angeles. A mother was with her son,
and he was, I suppose 5 or 6 years old. And the mother pointed at
me and said, ‘Look, look, that is Puss in Boots.’ And
the kid just looked at me and said: ‘No, mom. That’s
Zorro.’ ” — Actor Antonio Banderas on being recognized for voicing Puss in Boots in the Shrek movies. |
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May
2010
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“You
cannot do anything that is of a lower grade and a lower quality
than what has just been done on Clash of the Titans.” —DreamWorks Animation Chief Exec Jeffrey Katzenberg on the stereoscopic 3-D conversion process done by Warner Bros. on the recent movie. |
April
2010
“Basically,
we bring back everyone who’s [ticked off] at us. All the people
that are [ticked off] at South Park the town are going to file a
class-action lawsuit against the town.So basically it’s going
to be an all-star, who’s who. Tom Cruise and everyone’s
going to be back.” —Trey Parker on what he and Matt Stone are planning for the 200th Episode of South Park [which airs on Comedy Central on April 17, 2010.] |
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March
2010
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“'The
atmosphere was of a very well-maintained Rolls-Royce that people
didn't want you to drive. They were on autopilot, and if a movie
came out halfway decent and didn't look incompetent, they'd go,
'Whew, we survived another one!” —Director Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Iron Giant) on Disney animation during the ’80s. |
February
2010
“I
used to think that . . . my shorts were like frustrated feature films. But now having been on a great adventure making two feature films pretty much back to back, each one took about four years to make from idea right through to the end, you think up a joke and you see it on screen four years later. It's very frustrating, so I was desperate to get back to short films again, to see the ideas on screen a little bit sooner.” —Nick Park, director, Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death |
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January
2010
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“I’d
like more of the world go back to being wild. But as for the theme
of garbage and pollution in Ponyo, it’s too boring just
to put a message across about that. It’s better to volunteer
yourself to pick up all the garbage than to complain about it.
Which I do, actually, near my house by the river, every morning.” —Director Hayao Miyazaki, in a recent interview in The Daily Telegraph. |
December
2009
“Excellent!” — Fictional cartoon millionaire Charles Montgomery Burns scored the most write-in votes for mayor of New York, collecting 25, according to Board of Elections data. |
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