“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.” IfsMindLooksLongMadeStillsFeelingsFilmComputerDenyMoodMediumsAtmosphereRelevantCollages Author:Dave McKean
“If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantNeedsWritingLooksLevelsKnownDrawsScientistCurrentsBarsChef Author:Dave McKean
“The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.” LooksEyeSocialViewsLet MePoint Of ViewFilmmakerAesthetic Author:Dave McKean
“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.” LooksKindLongDoneCharacterFilmUsedProcessDesignMapsTextureAnimatedStoryboarding Author:Dave McKean
“Usually, the most difficult thing to do is photo-real stuff. Something that has to actually look like the real world, because it's just so difficult to do that. We're just so used to looking at the real world, our brains instantly see when something is not quite right.” WorldLooksRealUsedStuffDifficultBrainThings To DoReal WorldDifficult ThingsReal Stuff Author:Dave McKean
