Joe Grant Professions : Artist Born : May 15, 1908 Died : May 6, 2005 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Joe Grant The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas. Joe Grant simple-ideas simple ideas They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody who comes up with a vision. I don't care if there are three CEOs - it takes one guy with an idea. Joe Grant guy creative ideas What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be. Joe Grant inspiration expression ease Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit. Joe Grant finding-the-one pieces color Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny. Joe Grant good-sense-of-humor sense-of-humor humor Pixar is going in the direction of the early Disney. And it's also corporate, where they have four or five projects in the works. I don't want to get into that subject. Joe Grant pixar four want A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value. Joe Grant job man simple beautiful Actually, no, but I am close to the people who are working on Chicken Little, and I'm very close to the people over at Pixar. I mean, as far as stories are concerned, almost everything we have could be told that way. Joe Grant chicken i-am people way Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can. Joe Grant best you battle business Similar Authors Burton Silverman artist Bruce Nauman artist Bruce Conner artist Brom artist Britney Spears artist Brigid Berlin artist All Authors
