The whole point of making a film is to tell a story.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen.

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too."

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.

Youth is gone -- gone -- and will never come back: can't help it.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

In the first 50 years of the filibuster, it was used only 35 times. But the last Congress alone had 112 cloture motions filed, plus threats of more. This is the tyranny of the minority.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving.

You have to take a leap of faith to realize a dream, and this is something that a lot of people aren't willing to do.

I'm a New Yorker, so I have the sort of tough vein that's naturally bred into me. In general, I'm a nice person, and that seems to surprise people sometimes.