Quotes

Motto: "I never remember a favor, I never forget a slight, the other person is always wrong and I am always right!"

I like production illustration because it presents me with challenging situations which require my particular ability to both draw and work out the mechanics of getting a good shot or pacing a difficult scene. Often, just the quality of my work is satisfying, particularly if I am able to create a cohesive overall atmosphere for a film. Sometimes, I'll see the movie in a theater just to find out if it works with the audience.

[few of his drawings are ever returned to Huebner, not even those done for films which were never made.] They're stolen, people take them for souvenirs. I try to get as many as I can myself, because they're valuable to me as a guide to what I've already done. The rest wind up on producers' walls, studio files and film archives.

As an artist, I appreciate audience reaction to my work, even if nobody knows that the scenes they're watching developed partially through my efforts. But the projects that are most frustrating will always be the ones that never quite got off the ground, like the handful I designed with George Pal, including Iceberg, which he was working on when he died.

In an illustrative sense, I am directing movies on paper. I've even toyed with the idea of becoming a Director, but I'm just not sure I could handle the actors well. I'm too used to nailing them down on my drawing hoard - I don't know if I'd like to start watching them move all by themselves.