Lev Yilmaz Quotes

• Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

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  Character, Optimism, Trying

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• When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.

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  Girl, Football, Pain

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• People always say you can't win if you don't play

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  Winning, Play, People

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• Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

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  Expression, Ideas, Brain

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• When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

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  People, Looks, Attention

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• The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

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  Niche, Animation, Performances

  "A Cleaner, faster animation" by Katie Dean, www.wired.com. October 19, 1999.

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• One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

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  Motivation, Wells, Persons

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• I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!

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  Sleep, Home, Cutting

  "Life is funny. And mundane. Just like in a cartoon by Lev." by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. November 16, 2004.

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• A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

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  People, Cartoon, Feels

  "A cleaner, faster animation" by Katie Dean, www.wired.com. October 19, 1999.

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• I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

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  Perspective, Cemetery

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• My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

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  Mom, Brother, Home

  "Life is funny. And mundane. Just like in a cartoon by Lev" by Jane Ganahl, www.sfgate.com. November 16, 2004.

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• I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly balanced day anyway. But negative attitudes just amuse me more than positive ones.

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  Positive, Attitude, Reading

  "Tales of Mere Existence’s Lev Yilmaz". Interview with Matt Baume, sfappeal.com. August 14, 2009.

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