“I think the best thing is having a vision, because it is animation. We don’t have any guide or source track. We build everything from nothing, literally a blank piece of paper.” […]
“I had worked at a movie theater where I saw hundreds of movies in front of audiences, from the late ’70s to the mid-’80s. I watched them so many times—things like ‘E.T.’—that I could tell you what the audience was going to do.” […]
“After I took my first editing class, I was hooked. It’s funny, because I remember thinking I would never be an editor because it seemed too hard — but once I tried it, I had a lot of fun and wanted to continue learning.” […]
“Work hard, be humble, be ready.” […]
“Because of the way I bootstrapped my career, it has been very wide, eclectic and involved many genres.” […]
“It’s unnatural for me to think about my editorial voice, because an editor’s job is to take our stylistic cues from the director and become one with the material.” […]
“When I was a child, I was obsessed with anything animated.” […]
By Peter Tonguette For 18 years, on and off, the director of “Five Easy Pieces” (1970) and “The King […]
“This is what is really satisfying about the film: Your guard is let down by the humor, and you don’t expect that you’re going to have as emotional an experience in the end as you do.” […]
By Patrick Z. McGavin David Leitch’s new action film “Bullet Train” plays like Agatha Christie as reimagined by Quentin […]
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