Doug Sweetland famous quotes

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting.
-- Doug Sweetland

#New Experiences #Ideas #Discipline

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.
-- Doug Sweetland

#Dna #People #Groups

What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through some sort of a script phase. And you can get caught in the doldrums there, overdeveloping that, when you don't really know what you have until you put it up in storyboards.
-- Doug Sweetland

#Mean #Stories #Phases

I don't know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm shopping around.
-- Doug Sweetland

#Shopping #Ideas #Knows

There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.
-- Doug Sweetland

#Want #Animated #Animation

Warner Bros. is really open-minded, as far as studios go, when it comes to the types of movies they'll entertain, even with animated movies. It's a great place to be.
-- Doug Sweetland

#Open Minded #Bros #Type

Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.

For me it's a new experience every single time, because - The dance community has a great strength in synergizing immediately. So we recognize that opposed to being competition, which we are in the audition process, once we're on the job is about cohesion, it's about striving to highlight each individual in their own element, while also creating something that is visually tantalizing to the audience. While the ingredients of each movie has been different, the recipe for success is the same, which is to click immediately and make the best possible movie.

I'm just open to new experiences. I've never really settled down into one art. I like to be nomadic with my art.

When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.