“I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.” Quote by Ari Marcopoulos
“I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.” CultureYouthExcited Author:Ari Marcopoulos
“I was born in the West Village in New York, and then when I was about four my family moved to what they joke is the suburbs, the Upper West Side. I lived there for most of my childhood.” ChildhoodJokesMy FamilyMoved Author:Peter Vack
“I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a big rift. Then you get older and you realize it's not. But for a while there, we really didn't have much to do with each other - mostly because I should have been a better older brother. I'm making up for lost time. I want that in print so she can read it.” AgeRealizingInterestingGrowing UpBrotherPrintMy SisterMaking UpOlder BrotherLost Time Author:Peter Vack
“When father was younger than me he came to New York to be in musicals and was in a number of them. But he, at that time in his life, didn't feel he could fully commit to a creative life - he had this voice in the back of his head that said, "I need to make money." So that propelled him to open up an ice cream parlor, which then spawned into a number of different food businesses and took over his life for 20 years.” DifferentFatherCreativeCommitMaking MoneyCreative Life Author:Peter Vack
“My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.” MindKindFatherBlessingCurse Author:Peter Vack
“On these feature films there are people on the staff who can draw 100 times better then I can, and animate better then I can, and light better then I can, write comedy better then I can. I basically am in the middle of kind of a creative typhoon and I'm just kind of talking the film up on to the screen. Minute to minute, meeting by meeting, day by day.” PeopleWritingKindFilmCreativeComedyMeetings Author:Chris Wedge
“The most fun is to inhabit the world where cartoon physics is king. And that just means that things move with kind of an energy and exaggeration and appeal that is different from what we see in our world. We're bound by, at least, Newton's Laws of physics here and in animation we're not. So, director's can be extremely eccentric, you can sculpt motion in animation in a way that you just can't do any other way. In any other performance medium.” WorldKindMeanDifferentMovingEnergyFunPhysicsCartoonAnimationExaggeration Author:Chris Wedge
“I think I probably am doing animation because I started as a kid and I learned on my own, and I worked by myself a lot. It's the only thing I really prepared myself to do in any kind of depth. And I've just kind of imbibed the technology and techniques and the thinking about telling stories this way. It just feels natural to me.” ThinkingKindKidsNaturalTechnologyAnimation Author:Chris Wedge