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Gregor "Gore" Verbinski (born March 16, 1964) is an Academy Award-Winner 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, A Cure for Wellness, was released in 2017.

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I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.

Archetypes, Kids, Play, Twists, Using

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

Gave, Learning, Parent, Path, Think, Thinking

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.

Drama, Glass, Glasses, Lenses, Wide

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

Animation, Everything, Manufacture, Occurring

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

Animated, Believe, Movies, Stories, Technique

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

Everyone, Process, Reading, Sound, Strange

What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

Advancing, Get Better, Movie, Sitting, Thinking, Trying

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 process with honesty.

Honesty, Philosophy, Think, Thinking, Understand

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

Know, Knows, Lie, Lying, Say, Thinking

For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.

Actors, Affects, Awkward, Performance, Return

I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates and rock 'n' roll go hand in hand. There is a `question authority,' `don't be afraid to break the rules' quality that whether you're a 4-year-old bouncing on your bed as your parents are trying to stop it or an adult longing for that feeling, there's something inside all of us that piracy speaks to. I'm going to do what I want to do and I don't care what you think.

Adult, Feelings, Parent, Parents, Speaks, Thinking

The curse is an incredible set of blue balls.

Balls, Blue, Incredibles, Set

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.

Audiences, Data, Low, Risk, Thinking, Want Something

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

Different, Digital, Engineered, Lines, Precisely

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.

Choices, Individual, Progress, Westerns, World

There's so much work in making movies, it's so easy to tear one down. When I watch a movie, even one that I don't particularly enjoy, I'm constantly impressed at the work that's in it. I respect the craftsmen and women. I tolerate a lot of movies that maybe other people don't, just because I know what goes into them.

Constantly, Men And Women, People, Respect, Tears, Tolerate

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

Facts, Logic, Making, Movies, Think, Thinking

I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.

Box, Flying, Kids, Python, Think, Thinking

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

Answer, Answers, Dream, Maybe, Resolved, Want

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.

Comfort, People, Think, Thinking

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