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All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make the masks like Mickey Mouse faces so the children would like them. But I didn't. They had big ears on them.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Attack
Big
Case
Children
Ears
Faces
Gas
Germans
Had
Like
Make
Mask
Masks
Mickey
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
Them
Tried
Wear
Would
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And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Animation
Because
Blue
Blue Sky
Child
Deals
Directly
Favorite
Going
Goodbye
Having
Now
Part
Period
Pieces
Really
Sky
Suffered
Time
Too
Understand
Wall
War
Young
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And then I think they asked me to work on Wish You Were Here, which was the next album coming up. And I didn't do anything for a long time. I had other projects, and I didn't get around to doing anything for a bit.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Album
Anything
Around
Asked
Bit
Coming
Doing
Get
Had
Here
I Think
Long
Long Time
Me
Next
Other
Projects
Then
Think
Time
Up
Were
Which
Wish
Work
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And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Back
Came
Complex
Diamond
England
Everybody
Everyone
Hendrix
I Came
Jimi Hendrix
Kind
Know
Neil
Neil Diamond
Popular
Put
Right
Soundtrack
Through
Time
Um
Very
Who
You
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And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.
~ Gerald Scarfe
About
Away
Bombs
Days
Frightened
Gas
Had
Immediately
Masks
Roger
Running
Running Away
Talks
Thought
Wear
Young
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England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
~ Gerald Scarfe
America
Dull
England
Everything
Exciting
Incredibly
Seemed
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How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.
~ Gerald Scarfe
About
Anybody
Feel
Guess
Hope
How
I Feel
Like
War
Well
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I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Been
Draw
Drawings
Found
Made
Period
Sad
Several
Situation
Very
Vietnam
War
Wars
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I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.
~ Gerald Scarfe
About
Book
Done
Now
Years
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I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Anymore
Computer
Did
Disney
Drawings
Film
Hand
Just
Now
Painted
Put
Recently
Straight
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I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Characters
Develop
Disney
Exists
Film
Get
Had
Hercules
Imagine
Know
Like
Looked
Me
Mean
Nothing
Say
Script
Sent
Shall
Those
Working
You
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Around
Artist
Bit
Brain
Computer
Experiences
Goes
He
Him
His
I Think
Information
Like
Own
Past
Receives
Think
World
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So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Army
Forced
Join
Just
Look
People
Professional
Rest
Run
Soldiers
Them
War
Who
Whole
You
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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Because
Business
Extremely
Majority
People
Sad
Want
War
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So, I created these creatures called The Frightened Ones which in the film you see do have mask like kind of heads and they run beneath the ground to hide. Which is what in fact we did during the war.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Beneath
Created
Creatures
Did
Fact
Film
Frightened
Ground
Heads
Hide
In Fact
Kind
Like
Mask
Run
See
War
Which
You
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Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Bed
Child
Childhood
Most
Well
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Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Animation
Between
Complete
Drawings
In-Between
Kind
Movement
Series
Where
You
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You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on.
~ Gerald Scarfe
Characters
Designed
How
Job
Know
Literal
Should
Visualize
You
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