Top 14 Bill Plympton Quotes

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I think it reflects well on the state of animation that

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
Bill Plympton
I look at some of my early stuff – back when I was 12 or 13 years old – and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don’t know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.
Bill Plympton
I listen to Emmylou Harris. She’s my favorite. I don’t know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing.
Bill Plympton
I’d love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I’ve made get a wide release. I’m not sure that’s ever going to happen.
Bill Plympton
People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.
Bill Plympton
I’m not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there’s an audience for my films. I know there’s a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
Bill Plympton
I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there’s very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.
Bill Plympton
Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
Bill Plympton
I’m much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
Bill Plympton
I love Pixar films; I think they’re the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. ‘Tangled,’ was great. I loved ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ the Dreamworks film. But it’s not for me. I don’t want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films.
Bill Plympton
I don’t see why it’s such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.
Bill Plympton
I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night.
Bill Plympton
If I’m really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions.
Bill Plympton
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for ‘Guard Dog’ when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
Bill Plympton