Don Bluth Quotes

• You’ve got to be able to make animation for much less… Less is not the studio’s way.

  Don Bluth

• You just can’t keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It’s got to be a business.

  Don Bluth

• With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

  Don Bluth

• When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don’t understand animation, things can go awry.

  Don Bluth

• We’re waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

  Don Bluth

• We’d love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

  Don Bluth

• We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

  Don Bluth

• Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

  Don Bluth

• There’s about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it’s all about the game play.

  Don Bluth

• The studios will go wherever they smell money. It’s like sharks to the blood.

  Don Bluth

• The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered.

  Don Bluth

• The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things… Anything outside that, they just don’t know what to do with it.

  Don Bluth

• The heart of Dragon’s Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon’s Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  Don Bluth

• Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that’s it.

  Don Bluth

• Reese Witherspoon. She’s sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she’s smart.

  Don Bluth

• Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

  Don Bluth

• Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them – the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.

  Don Bluth

• It’s whatever sells; it’s the business of it.

  Don Bluth

• It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn’t belong.

  Don Bluth

• In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren’t computer people, and the computer people usually aren’t the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

  Don Bluth

Don Bluth (35)

Birth:	13th September, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Video Game Developer

About

Donald Virgil "Don" Bluth is an American animator, video game designer and independent studio owner who is best known for his departure from The Walt Disney Company in 1979 and his subsequent directing of animated films such as The Secret of NIMH, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and Anastasia, as well as his involvement in the laserdisc game Dragon's Lair.

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