25 Quotes by Don Hertzfeldt

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.

After working so long on something like this, it’s great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn’t just working in a cave by myself for no reason.

Bill read in a biology book about how cells replace themselves over the years; how bodies died and were remade out of interchangeable pieces. It depressed him how foreign his younger self looked to him now, how his body had stolen the identity of this happy dead kid, and with his own life, had made a complete mess of it.

I’ve loved science fiction my whole life. But I’ve never made a science fiction movie.

It’s naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you’re young you just make movies, you don’t worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

Most people’s personalities and roles are locked by the time they’re nine or 10. I think there’s something to that.

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