4 Quotes & Sayings By Henry Selick

Ambitious and imaginative, Henry Selick has worked as a writer, animator, and director on a wide range of projects for film, television, and the web. His work behind the camera includes classic sequences for The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), The Secret of NIMH (1982) and Coraline (2009). In addition to directing his own films he has also directed the Oscar-winning short animated film "Feast" as well as many television specials for PBS. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

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Cyclops, that's like this primal fear. I had dreams for years that the Cyclops was a small creature living in our huge fish tank at home, and at night, it was going to grow to full size and come after me. Henry Selick
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I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire. Henry Selick
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Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object. Henry Selick