“Nobody wants to see the truth. Everybody wants to have the fantasy. When I look back at the books I was reading in my childhood were selling some sort of fantasy as well. Most stories are not going to tell the deep suffering of every day. No book prepared me for the suffering I would experience in life because the word "suffering" does not even describe what the suffering is. No story is going to tell you that, and no words can tell you that.” WantWellsLooksDoeBookStoriesSufferingReadingFantasyChildhoodPreparedSelling Author:Signe Baumane
“When I do only images, people don't connect with the images because the images are too weird to understand. But when I explain the weird images with straight words, then all of a sudden there is a tension between the two that the audience wants to see.” PeopleWantTwoAudienceTension Author:Signe Baumane
“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantKindStillsDifferentWarFilmFallSexIndustryPercentOkayGenderBotherFilmmakerCracksNinetySex And Gender Author:Signe Baumane
“I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.” WantBelieveImportantStoriesKidsI BelieveGoalTakenAdultsDecidedMediumsAnimation Author:Signe Baumane
