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 Ray Harryhausen Quotation"I'm another snowball. Willis O'Brien started the snowball, then I picked it up, then ILM picked it up and now the computer generation is picking it up. Where it will end I don't know. Maybe in holography, although I'm not sure I'd like a grotesque monster appearing in 3-D in my living room." On his Oscar: "I was delighted to be recognised, and pleased now that animation is recognised as a legitimate profession." "The thing that finally persudaded me to quit was that I saw that the nature of the hero was changing. When I was growing up we had heroes such as Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman and David Niven - real gentlemen on the screen. Now all you have is Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and all those people who solve problems with their fists. It's a different world and I sometimes feel I'm not part of it. Say what you like about Hollywood in my time, but they were in the business of happy endings, of escapism. Now you have to sit through two hours of people dying, you know. Today everything's so graphic it's rather unnerving." "I got tired of ebing in a dark room while the rest of the crew went off making another two or three films while I was still on one! But I don't regret it. People ask me if I would have used computer graphics today. I may have, I don't know. There's a lot of technology now that allows you to view instantly the film you've just shot. But I never cared what I had done, I only cared where I was going." "The problem was that Mighty Joe Young was seen as expensive by the studios. A lot of them got frightened, so I had to go to the other extreme and prove that you could do it on a budget. As a result, I'm afraid, I got stuck in the low-budget productions, which could be very frustrating but seem to be coming to the fore now as classics." "King Kong haunted me for years, I came out of the theatre in another world. I'd never see anything like that before in my life. I didn't know how it was done and that was half the charm. I didn't just say 'eureka, I've found what I want to do; that came over a period of time. But I'd done a few dioramas in clay of the Bre tar pits and I saw in King Kong how you could make them move. Luckily a friend of my father's worked at RKO and he knew all about stop-motion, so I started experimenting in my garage." "I went to see it again and again. I was a Movie Title: King Kong addict! I loved the way the film took you from the mundane world into the surreal." [from an interview in 2000] Movie Title: Mighty Joe Young (1998) as Gentleman at Party: Elegant Woman at Party : She reminds me of somebody, but I can't think who it is. Gentleman at Party : You, when we first met. |
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