If You Make Things Too Real, Sometimes

Animation Requires A Great Deal Of Concentration, And I Preferred To Work Alone Because Then I'm Not Deterred By Somebody Asking Me If I Want Coffee, Or The Phone Ringing Or Something.

With All The Hype That Computer Graphics Has Been Getting, Everybody Thinks There's Nothing Better Than Cgi, But I Do Get A Lot Of Fan Mail Saying They Prefer Our Films To Anything With Cgi In It. I'm Grateful For That, And We Made Them On Tight Budgets, So They Were Considered B-pictures Because Of That. And, Now Here We Are, And They've Outlasted Many So-called A-pictures.

Today, They Make Films Where You Have To Sit For An Hour And A Half And Watch Somebody In The Process Of Dying And, For Me, That's Rather Depressing. Films, In The Good Old Days Of The Golden Age Of Hollywood, Used To Want To Inspire People And Give Them Uplift. You're Paying Good Money To See A Film, And You Don't Want To Leave Depressed!

One Film Critic Back In The Early Days Said "it's A Pity Mr. Harryhausen Didn't Animated The Actors, Too."

Animation Had Been Used Only For Things Like King Kong And The Destruction Of Cities, Which Was Very Popular In The 1950s. I Got Tired Of Destroying Cities. I Destroyed New York, I Destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, And Washington. I Was Looking For A New Outlet, And I Came Across The Sinbad Legends.