Raul Garcia famous quotes

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.
-- Raul Garcia

#Stories #Adaptation #Members

When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.
-- Raul Garcia

#Blood #Brain #Monsters

In a way Poe was a big influence for Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes. I think he really did influence many artist of the time like Baudelaire, who was a big fan of Poe, and who was the one that brought attention to Poe's work in Europe.
-- Raul Garcia

#Artist #Thinking #Europe

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.
-- Raul Garcia

#Long #Desire #Spain

The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.
-- Raul Garcia

#Country #People #Hollywood

In a certain way working in animation has become very democratic because now anyone with the right technology can at least prepare a project from home in order to attract investors. Some people can even set up a small home studio and start working.
-- Raul Garcia

#Home #Technology #Order

Independence can be tough. Without a studio to back you up, when you finish a feature and want to start a new project you have to start from zero.
-- Raul Garcia

#Zero #Independence #Want

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!

Social adaptation has to proceed via the intellect.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!

There are members of the London press who seek to antagonise me, deliberately.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.