“I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience.” PeopleKindSchoolBeautifulFilmInterestingOppositesPatternsSentencesNot SureThemeFilm SchoolSchool Experience Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.” PeopleNeedsTryingI CanWholeAbleDifficultCreativeCamerasNotesCommunicateExperimentsLuxuryNew ThingsTripping Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“If you go to a film festival and watch a bunch of features and then watch a bunch of shorts, you will almost always find that the shorts are where people are taking more risks and pushing more boundaries...simply because they have much less to lose.” PeopleIfsFilmLosesWatchesRiskBoundariesBunchFeaturesPushingFestivalsShortsFilm Festivals Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.” PeopleThinkingRolesPersonalityNineLocked Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“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.” PeopleYearsLooksLittlesStillsHappensInterestMistakeCareersPathChangedStrangeYears AgoThings HappenOutlookStrange ThingsCareer PathAnimator Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“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...” PeopleLongReasonYeahReactionsNo ReasonCaves Author:Don Hertzfeldt
