Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it’s like to change your voice up.
BILLY WESTEven when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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I’m not angry. Everybody thinks I’m so angry because I have a point of view. They’re expecting me to just be all Smucker’s Jam.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
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