25 Quotes by Don Hertzfeldt

When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you’re bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.

I’ll have a sentence in my head that’s kind of beautiful and interesting, but I’m not sure why or where it’s coming from. So it’s kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it’s the exact opposite of my film school experience.

There’s really no reason film and digital can’t happily co-exist and benefit from one another. Anyone who tells you otherwise is just trying to sell you something.

To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There’s – you meet someone when you’re a young teenager, and they’re never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.

The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you’d have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

I’ve loved science fiction my whole life. But I’ve never made a science fiction movie. And “World Of Tomorrow” is sort of a parody of science fiction at the same time. It’s all of the things I find interesting in sci-fi amplified.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it’s representing the present.

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

But I had never drawn on a tablet before. I’ve been doing pencil and paper and film for almost 20 years. I wanted to try something different. I wanted to teach myself some digital stuff in advance of a bigger feature project that’s coming up, and I took to it really quickly.