#ma

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people. ↗

— Don Bluth

#day #game #i #lot #maybe

Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film. ↗

— Don Bluth

#animated #close #come #controlling #dragon

I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel? ↗

— Don Bluth

#cannot #claim #enthusiasm #explain #i

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#book #bookstore #content #few #glance

I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#attention #audience #because #book #capture

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#books #curious #died #even #grandfather

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is. ↗

— Don Bluth

#animation #go #i #into #like

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure. ↗

— Don Bluth

#action #adventure #also #blend #different

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#before #beforehand #calculations #few #fought

If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers! ↗

— Don Bluth

#both #computers #drawing #drudgery #i