Henry Selick Quotes

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

Henry Selick

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BeautifulMoneyPeopleWantJust

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

Jessica Hagedorn

MyselfImaginationChildYouDrama

The music business and I were made for each other.

Jerry Heller

BusinessMusicMusic BusinessMade

I was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi, lived there a couple of times. My dad was in the Navy. So, we lived in Mississippi and South Carolina until I was 11, and then I moved to California, went to, you know, high school there in the Monterey Bay area.

Jennifer Palmieri

SchoolHigh SchoolYouBornKnow

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

John Edgar Wideman

LoveBusinessHistoryArtI Am

I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I'd look like a homeless person.

Stephen Merchant

StyleHatHomelessJealousLookGet

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

Sonia Sotomayor

BestNewThemYorkerNew Yorker

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Robert A. Heinlein

ManEngineeringMagicSupernatural

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Mickey Mantle

HomeTimeMeTryingSaidRun

I was not aware of what my dad had accomplished. I grew up with him playing football.

Michelle Carter

FootballHimUpPlayingAwareHad

When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.

Jonathan Powell

TimeExperiencePoliticalProblem

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.

Christopher Walken

YouCome And GoGoMoviesKindSee

I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

Conor Oberst

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