Dave McKean Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Film gives me live actors, editing, music, sound, a huge and powerful toolbox to play with. If there is a problem for me, it is that film gives me too much. There is less room for the audience to add their side of the conversation.

  Dave McKean

  Powerful, Editing, Play

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

• Reading a good comic is a creative act. Watching a film is often a more passive experience, and since I'm interested in engaging that conversational aspect of creativity, I'm trying to find ways of achieving that in my films.

  Dave McKean

  Reading, Creativity, Creative

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

• Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

  Dave McKean

  Drawing, Batteries, Different

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

• I don't want to get pigeonholed just doing just family films and fantasy films... I don't really want to get pigeonholed just doing anything in particular.

  Dave McKean

  Want, Fantasy, Film

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

• I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era.

  Dave McKean

  Letters, Way, Eras

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

• The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.

  Dave McKean

  Book, Inspiration, Voice

  Source: www.thestorymint.com

• But actually making pictures to look like my pictures, I've done it for so long, I'm kind of used to it now. So at the beginning of the process, designing and storyboarding everything, I sort of did all that. And then designed the characters, and doing the textures for the characters, and the texture maps to cover all the animated characters and the sets, I did those, because that's where my sort of coloring and textures get imprinted on the film.

  Dave McKean

  Character, Long, Design

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've always liked making things that don't deny the medium that they're made in. If it's collage, I'm happy for it to look like that. If it's a film made with computers, I don't mind that it looks like a film made with computers as long as it still has a feeling or a mood or an atmosphere that is relevant.

  Dave McKean

  Long, Feelings, Atmosphere

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

• I love telling stories. And even in single images, I tend to have stories inside them. I've always loved film, but I was making drawings and paintings and photographs. And you put art and narrative together, and that really is comics.

  Dave McKean

  Art, Drawing, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Real, Character

  Source: theculturalgutter.com

• You could easily spend several lifetimes trying to master film. It make very good use of all the things that I love. Narrative, image-making, also sound and music. It's so full that I can't really imagine getting tired of it. Or getting to the point like I feel like I know it.

  Dave McKean

  Tired, Sound And Music, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.

  Dave McKean

  Jobs, Teenager, Book

  Source: thequietus.com

• So I really love this very difficult feeling of being completely out at sea. I don't know what I'm doing, and I kind of like this feeling. So I think for the moment, I'm going to continue to try and nail film down in some sort of shape where I'm happy with it.

  Dave McKean

  Thinking, Sea, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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