"I suppose we would be monsters to a Venusian. [...] We depicted the outer space creature as something strange rather than as a monster. He was from a strange place and therefore out of place in our familiar surroundings."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Film producers from the United StatesPeople from Los AngelesAnimatorsArtists from the United StatesSpecial effects people
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
On 20 Million Miles to Earth
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Ray Harryhausen
Raymond Frederick Harryhausen (June 29, 1920 – May 7, 2013) was an American visual effects creator, writer, and producer who created a form of stop-motion model animation known as "Dynamation."
18 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Ray Harryhausen →
Related Quotes
"We don't deliberately desire to scare anybody - we design our creatures to fit in harmony with the story and, of cour…"
"[The skeleton] in Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was more frightening than the seven in Jason and the Argonauts. [...] Beca…"
"I teethed on Frankenstein and Dracula but I feel that those films were made with greater taste than horror films are …"
"I enjoyed Young Frankenstein. I didn't think I would because I like my Frankensteins pure and clean like the original…"
"We don't set out to deliberately scare with our creatures, we try to make them as awe-inspiring as possible."
"The art of motion has always intrigued me. How a body - when it throws its weight from side to side and sits down - a…"
"I am often asked if I would have liked to have been involved with Jurassic Park. The plain answer is no. Although exc…"
"I remember once, in my garage studio whilst I was animating a dinosaur, that things were not going right. Gradually t…"
"For some reason the creation was called a rhedosaurus, and although I can't remember where this name came from, I sus…"
"The task of instilling pathos into a creature that was, after all, an innocent victim of circumstances was something …"