Quotes by Gore Verbinski

About Gore Verbinski:

Gregor "Gore" Verbinski is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and musician. He is best known for directing the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean film saga, The Ring, and Rango. Verbinski is a graduate of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. His most recent film, The Lone Ranger, was released in 2013. Verbinski won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2012 for his animated action-comedy western Rango. With his films having a collective worldwide gross of $3.72 billion, Verbinski is the 9th highest grossing film director in the world.
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Raising kids these days is hard. I'm the second to last child in my family. I think it's tough; I have two kids, I see them and I feel like I see things in them; they awaken the inner child in you.

Gore Verbinski

I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.

Gore Verbinski

Everyone always wants to find the answer, to feel that things are resolved. But in dreams, maybe there isn't an answer so much.

Gore Verbinski

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Gore Verbinski

Today we're just growing and consuming, and I think maybe there's a sadness in that. People are longing for a time when there was a black and white and good and bad.

Gore Verbinski

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

Gore Verbinski

Honestly, every person, every individual has a process, and my philosophy, whether it's an actor or an animator, is you try to understand the process that person has so you can get the most out of them, but I think you have to sort of manipulate that...

Gore Verbinski

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Gore Verbinski

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

Gore Verbinski

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Gore Verbinski

I try to push and find something awkward. The gems to me are truly awkward situations, and you have to have somebody who's willing to fail because those can't be conceived. They never play if they're thought about and discussed too much. You have to ...

Gore Verbinski

I just think it's growth when you pursue something you're not sure you can do.

Gore Verbinski

This is the story, this is your character, I have the sense of the landscape, I have the sense of the scene, I have all that stuff. But I'm also looking for something else to happen, an accident or something. You're focused on the story you intend to...

Gore Verbinski

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

Gore Verbinski

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

Gore Verbinski

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Gore Verbinski

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Gore Verbinski

It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked.

Gore Verbinski

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

Gore Verbinski

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.

Gore Verbinski

Author Bio

  • NameGore Verbinski
  • DescriptionAmerican film director
  • BornMarch 16, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Screenwriter; Musician; Film Producer
  • AwardsAnnie Award