Don Bluth Quotes

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
Don Bluth

Waiting, Again, Confident

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth

Business, Understand, Decisions

The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.
Don Bluth

Heart, Team, Story

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.
Don Bluth

Film, Close, Feature

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
Don Bluth

Work, Talk, Director

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
Don Bluth

Artist, Perhaps, Jump

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
Don Bluth

Trying, Whole, Seems

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.
Don Bluth

Business, Whatever, Sells

Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart.
Don Bluth

Smart, Enough, Her

Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it.
Don Bluth

Game, Three, Five

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
Don Bluth

Money, Blood, Smell

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.
Don Bluth

Game, Through, Play

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.
Don Bluth

Find, Financing

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
Don Bluth

Love, Space, Potential

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.
Don Bluth

Money, Business, Down

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
Don Bluth

Able, Less, Animation

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.
Don Bluth

Emotional, Job, Hero

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
Don Bluth

Love, Great, Children

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.
Don Bluth

Someone, Game, Mean

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?
Don Bluth

Money, Why, Cannot

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
Don Bluth

Home, Design, Game

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.
Don Bluth

Live, Trying, Action

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.
Don Bluth

Remember, Coming, Danger

I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
Don Bluth

Work, Great, Different

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
Don Bluth

Music, Different, Whole

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: September 13, 1937

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