Latest Don Hertzfeldt Quotes from Interviews

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• I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fiction, Made, Whole Life

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn't just working in a cave by myself for no reason...

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Long, People, Caves

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• It's great for me to hear those different reactions because when I travel with a movie like this [World of Tommorow], it's very similar. You'll hear a line in one city get a big laugh, and then in another city, the same line kind of gets a gasp, and that's wonderful.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Cities, Laughing, Different

• Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Time Travel, Dangerous, Things To Do

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Imagine, Filmmaking, Ultimate Freedom

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Hurt, Fun, Teenager

• No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fiction, Matter, Representing

• I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Reflection, Thinking, Fiction

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie. And it's [World Of Tomorrow] sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It's all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Interesting, Fiction, World

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Smart, Fiction, World

  "'World Of Tomorrow' Animated Short Explores What It Means To Be Human". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

• Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Writing, Visuals

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think some of this just feels right. You're in the shower and you come up with a sentence and it's beautiful. You don't know how it's going to fit in the film, but you put it in because it feels right. This is a very long way of saying, so much of it is me feeling like I'm catching ideas rather than coming up with ideas. It's very fluid like that.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I frequently run into this, where I genuinely feel like - and this is not just my head cold talking right now - I often, and this is going to sound weird, but I often feel like the guy who makes these movies is smarter than me. Smarter than the guy on the phone right now.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Running, Phones, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

• So much of the writing is not conscious, in the sense that it's not calculated. I remember in film school we had so many studies with big fancy words where you could dissect a movie and make charts of all of the characters' complicated inner relations and themes and what does this mean? And it's overwhelming as a student. It's great for a student, but as a writer, it's paralyzing.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Writing, School, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

• What's interesting is when you talk about that - "living forever" or as long as you possibly can - what you really want is a continuance of your memories and your experiences. If I said you could live another 200 years, but we'd have to reboot you, that's not attractive. Nobody wants that as much as a continuance of your experience.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Memories, Years, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

• To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories with you? Who are we without our memories, without our past?

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Memories, Past, Interesting

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• The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Running, Character, Gun

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get very milky and the colors get very weak, and we made so many different versions of it to just pump more color into it, so it would look just as good in the theater as it does on your screen at home. And color was my constant whine. It needed to be very oversaturated.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Home, Color, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that's coming up, and I took to it really quickly.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Years, Trying, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Glasses, Drawing, Missing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Done, Digital, Projects

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fighting, Interviews, Cold

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• I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Tired, Mean, Sarcasm

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

• I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Mistake, Years, Careers

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

• Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Thinking, People, Personality

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.