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The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.
Don Hertzfeldt
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Don Hertzfeldt
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 1
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Fremont
California
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Maybe the most annoying questions is: Where do you see yourself in so many years? It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it.
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Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.
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I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.
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I think one of the reasons I love science fiction so much is that it's - when it's ideally done right, it's a reflection on ourselves.
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There's really no reason film and digital can't happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.
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I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].
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What's interesting is when you talk about that - living forever or as long as you possibly can - what you really want is a continuance of your memories and your experiences. If I said you could live another 200 years, but we'd have to reboot you, that's not attractive. Nobody wants that as much as a continuance of your experience.
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Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.
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To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.
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I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.
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If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What matters is what's unfolding on the screen, not how you put it there. It doesn't matter if it's red triangles or million dollar software if the audience doesn't care.
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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.
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It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.
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It's great for me to hear those different reactions because when I travel with a movie like this [World of Tommorow], it's very similar. You'll hear a line in one city get a big laugh, and then in another city, the same line kind of gets a gasp, and that's wonderful.
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Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?
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But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I've been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that's coming up, and I took to it really quickly.
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Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.
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You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shape itself. It guarantees the best classes will always be used and it also keeps you from going braindead. If you grow bored and uninspired working on something, the audience will be able to tell.
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To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.
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I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.
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