Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.
Don HertzfeldtI'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.
Don HertzfeldtUsually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.
Don HertzfeldtI'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.
Don HertzfeldtTo me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.
Don HertzfeldtI've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.
Don Hertzfeldt