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I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.

Don Hertzfeldt's Popular Quotes

The only purpose of the visuals, in any film, is to serve the story.

- Don Hertzfeldt

I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few peo…

- Don Hertzfeldt

Maybe the most annoying questions is: "Where do you see yourself in so many years?" It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it.

- Don Hertzfeldt

Traditionally, digital projects, when you project them, they get really washed out. It's complicated stuff with gamma, but basically your blacks get …

- Don Hertzfeldt

If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your story. What ma…

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To be animating at the same time, it's the ultimate freedom in filmmaking because you can literally put anything on the screen that you can imagine.

- Don Hertzfeldt

Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.

- Don Hertzfeldt

You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shap…

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I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

- Don Hertzfeldt