KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Duke Johnson Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Duke Johnson

Showing 1-9 of 9 Quotes by Duke Johnson

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Balls Complicated Instead Interacting Juggling Other Puppets Super Ten Three You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Movement and physics: These are the fundamentals of animation. You don't notice that stuff if it's done well, but if fabric or liquid or hair moves weird, your brain is like, 'Wait, that's not real.'

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Animation Brain Done Fabric Fundamentals Hair Like Liquid Movement Moves Notice Physics Real Stuff Wait Weird Well You Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I was the first in my family to graduate college.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: College Family First Graduate

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Charlie Direct Dream Life Literally Movie Said

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Walking in stop-motion animation is probably the most difficult thing you can do... The way that they have these puppets connect to the set is they actually drill a hole in the set, and they put a threaded rod up through that hole and screw it into the bottom of their foot, and that keeps them in place.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Actually Animation Bottom Connect Difficult Difficult Thing Drill Foot Hole Keeps Most Most Difficult Thing Place Puppets Put Rod Screw Set Them Thing Through Up Walking Way You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Typically, with low-budget stop-motion, you can get away with a cartoony style.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Away Get Low-Budget Style You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Whether it's Brad Pitt up there, if there's a good moment up there, and you get pulled into the emotion, you're not thinking, 'Oh, that's Brad Pitt. He's an actor, and he's famous.' That's kind of the nature of storytelling, right? You sit around the fire and tell a story, and you can get sucked into that story.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Actor Around Brad Brad Pitt Emotion Famous Fire Get Good He Kind Moment Nature Oh Pitt Pulled Right Sit Story Storytelling Sucked Tell Thinking Up Whether You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm doing a music video for a group called 'Die Antwoord.' That's fun, but yeah, I'm trying to get a live-action film off the ground, and that could take anywhere from a few months to the rest of my life.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: Anywhere Could Die Doing Few Film Fun Get Ground Group Life Months Music My Life Off Rest Take Trying Video Yeah

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When I was at N.Y.U., I studied abroad in Prague, and I learned about some of the European animators, like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta. I didn't think at the time that I would end up doing anything like that, but I certainly thought it was very cool.

~Duke Johnson

Topics: About Abroad Animators Anything Certainly Cool Doing End European Learned Like Prague Some Studied Think Thought Time Up Very Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: September 23rd, 1993

Links

Find Duke Johnson on Amazon

Related Authors

Muhammad Ali
Lance Armstrong
Yogi Berra
Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan
Satchel Paige
Steve Prefontaine
Mike Tyson

Popular Authors

Amelia Earhart Kevin Hart Christopher Hitchens Margaret Mead Jean-Jacques Rousseau Will Smith Sonia Sotomayor Henny Youngman

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1694 - Voltaire

1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher

1787 - Bryan Procter

1863 - Arthur Quiller-Couch

1870 - Alexander Berkman

1886 - Harold Nicolson

1889 - Hugh Kingsmill

1898 - Rene Magritte

1904 - Coleman Hawkins

1907 - Jim Bishop

Birthdays on November 21st
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Alone Freedom God Home Leadership Memorial Day Movies Moving On