Medusa was fascinating to work with because I gave her a snake's body so that she could pull herself with her hands which gave her a very creepy aura….

With all the hype that computer graphics has been getting, everybody thinks there's nothing better than CGI, but I do get a lot of fan mail saying th….

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

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….

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. The….

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

Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying ….

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

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..

Today, they make films where you have to sit for an hour and a half and watch somebody in the process of dying and, for me, that's rather depressing.….

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story. That seems to be forgotten. Many films today just rely on special effects and they have an explo….

Many people are under the delusion that I'm just a special-effects man, but I've worn many different hats in my day. On every film I've been involved….

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,….

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 i….

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

I still go to the conventions, and I like to hear the point of view of people today. I'm a little afraid they're being brainwashed by this new pop-cu….

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

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