Plympton Quotes & Sayings

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it ...
It wasn't only the sand drifts and the mud and the narrow, winding, broken roads up in the mountains. There was all that business at the frontier posts, all that haggling in the forest outside wooden huts that flew strange flags. I had to talk myself and my Peugeot past the men with guns
just to drive through bush and more bush. And then I had to talk even harder, and shed a few more bank notes and give away more of my tinned food, to get myself
and the Peugeot
out of the places I had talked us into.
Some of these palavers could take half a day ... — V.S. Naipaul

Despite what I say in my songs, its never okay for a man to put his hands on a female. — Eminem

I do not understand this analogy, Mencheres muttered. — Jeaniene Frost

I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow
less likely to happen. — Emily Giffin

Every why hath a wherefore. — William Shakespeare

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations. — Bill Plympton

I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better. — Bill Plympton

I'd love to win an Oscar; that would be great. I hope to get a feature film that I've made get a wide release. I'm not sure that's ever going to happen. — Bill Plympton

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine. — Bill Plympton

Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people. — Bill Plympton

You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems. — Paul Tudor Jones

I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action. — Bill Plympton

China, the nation which suppressed every citizen in the country who has a different opinion to the government while the rulers sneak "peacefully" into every market in wider world of Diverse cultures. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them. — Bill Plympton

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team. — Bud Wilkinson

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist. — Bill Plympton

I love Pixar films; I think they're the greatest filmmakers in the world. I love Disney films. 'Tangled,' was great. I loved 'How to Train Your Dragon,' the Dreamworks film. But it's not for me. I don't want to make a film for families; I want to make adult films. — Bill Plympton

I like the idea of seeing a film that has the artist's hand in there,a film where you can see his strokes, you can see his working patterns. It's like going to a museum and seeing a Renoir drawing. You want to see their work and you want to see how they put it together. For me to see that in animation is really fresh, it's really exciting, it's really original. — Bill Plympton

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual. — Robert M. Fresco

I'm very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. — Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation. — Bill Plympton

My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird. — Bill Plympton

The White House is the finest prison in the world. — Harry S. Truman

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film. — Bill Plympton

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it. — Bill Plympton

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts. — Eugene McCarthy

If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so theoretically, I could do a film in three months without any interruptions. — Bill Plympton

People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps. — Bill Plympton

Don't look at the present storm, but look to the Son coming. — Anthony Liccione

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow. — Bill Plympton

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist. — Bill Plympton

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night. — Bill Plympton

I listen to Emmylou Harris. She's my favorite. I don't know why, but I just feel more creative with her playing. — Bill Plympton

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary. — Bill Plympton