Don Hertzfeldt Quotes

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

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.

Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.

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.

Most people's personalities and roles are locked by the time they're nine or 10. I think there's something to that.

Tuesday's coming, did you bring your coat?

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

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.

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.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

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.

Fighting a cold, but I'm powering through. As they say, there's nothing better for a cold than doing interviews all day.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.

Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

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.

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.