Gore Verbinski Quotes

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Gore Verbinski

Profession : Director

Birth : March 16, 1964

When I speak of drama, I'm really referring to just 'desperately trying not to be ordinary'. Trying to get something that has a little bit of friction, conflict, absurdity.

Gore Verbinski

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

Gore Verbinski

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Gore Verbinski

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Gore Verbinski

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.

Gore Verbinski

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

Gore Verbinski

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Gore Verbinski

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for Westerns have gone way, way up. It's hard and treacherous work. It's hard to find people these days who can ride horses like that and jump onto trains.

Gore Verbinski

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

Gore Verbinski

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

Gore Verbinski

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

Gore Verbinski