I always worked with the writer, and the producer, and sometimes the director wouldn't come in until the picture was ready to go. It's not a director's picture as you imagine in the European sense of the word. It has to be laid out -- otherwise we couldn't make them for the price we did. I was responsible for laying out the special effects and making the picture practical.
More Quotes from Ray Harryhausen:
A lot of people thought my work was very tedious, and it can be if you look at it from that point of view, but I never looked upon it as tedious.Ray Harryhausen
So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.
Ray Harryhausen
I was never restricted. I was never told what to do.
Ray Harryhausen
I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.
Ray Harryhausen
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. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
Ray Harryhausen
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.Kevyn Aucoin
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
Israel Zangwill
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
E. T. Bell