If You Make Things Too

That's Why I Never Became A Director. I Never Had Patience With People.

You Could Believe That Sinbad Could Fight A Skeleton Because That's From A Period In The Past, A Magical Period. But If You Had James Bond Fighting A Skeleton, It'd Be Almost Comical.

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.

There’s A Strange Quality In Stop-motion Photography, Like In King Kong, That Adds To The Fantasy. If You Make Things Too Real, Sometimes You Bring It Down To The Mundane.