Edward Gorey Interview #1
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- The late illustrator Edward Gorey having lunch at Jack's Outback in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Raw footage from our upcoming feature-length documentary about the artist shot from 1996 to his death in April, 2000. A Mooncusser Film directed by Christopher Seufert. View project updates at www.EdwardGorey...
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I'm overjoyed to learn about this documentary! Every time I read some Gorey I'm filled with an overwhelming sense of loss, knowing that I'll never get to meet the man and pick his brain. I'm incredibly relieved that someone is making a documentary so the world can get maybe just a little bit closer to understanding the artistic genius of Gorey. Cheers!
Thanks so much for uploading this! As a huge Gorey fan it's awesome to just see the man talking about his art and everything! I myself just uploaded footage I shot at his house in 2003, as it were.
I am very excited for your documentary and can't wait to see it completed! Utterly awesome stuff!
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He seems so different from how I imagined, but the guy's still a genius, and he seems like a wonderful person. One of my biggest idols.
One of my favorite artists.
Honestly, who cares what he did or didn't do with his sexuality? I'm so in awe of his humor and his artistry and his being a successful and recognized and respected artist, rather than a starving artist. Lovely man, apparently.
He was likely asexual and/or aromantic judging from a lot things he said and his work. There are more sexual orientations outside of just homosexual...
Actually I remember him saying in one interview or another (sorry for constantly quoting from him, but I'm currently rereading a book of interviews with him) that while Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll were his biggest heroes, his real influences came from elsewhere, from a multitude of sources. I think he added that his two biggest influences were Louis Feuillade and Georges Balanchine. Go figure. Lear obviously was an inspiration for his book of limericks, "The Listing Attic."
Have you seen "The Hedgehog in the Fog"? I think that's his best work. But it should definitely be seen on a big screen or at least in the telly, since it loses much on RUclips. It's better than nothing, of course.
I knew Edward Gorey well. He was a man who had his own particular "take" on this world. He was also a genius. If he could see what they've done to his house in Yarmouthport he'd die all over again. "Dreary posh English accent"? Why? You don't mean to suggest brilliant Americans with their banal accents cannot be talented are you? PERSPECTIVE!
"This 'Overcoat' film began at the most inappropriate time of perestroika," Norstein says, referring to the period before the breakup of the Soviet Union, when money for artists dried up. "I always had difficulty with my bosses doing it on time and the removal of fees. But I never gave up on the film."
Apparently the film will be released in a half hour version later this year. Let's hope someone posts it on RUclips.
I'm really really really looking forward to the release of your Edward Gorey documentary! :)
I just googled "Yuri Norstein" and "overcoat" and picked up the quote from the first reference I got. It took about 15 seconds in all. Internet is a treasury of information if you know how to use it.
He also adored Judy Garland...
It's a shame we didn't get the whole interview. It is labeled 1 and 2 but it begins at a part where it seemed to have more.
Well, I think the interviewers were trying to put him into a box, i.e., wanting to label him as this, that, or the other. I think he was just speaking frankly - though he was known to contradict himself and to cap off his statements with "Well, not really" or words to that effect.
Excellent, I'll keep a watch out for it.
What a kind and giving soul.
I don't know which comment you are referring to, but all the ones I quoted come from a book of interviews with Gorey called "Ascending Peculiarity".
As far as I know (again according to the interviews), he didn't love designing sets. For example, he didn't like seeing his drawings blown up to the proportions that they were blown up to in "Dracula". I think what influenced him in Balanchine was more the latter's philosophy of life - "Just do it!" or something along those lines. I can look up the exact quote later.
I'm a big fan of Edward Gorey, but he's not that well known in the UK - will this film be available over here?
Quite a character Gorey was. I've always wanted to eat at Jack's Outback too; I want to visit that place if I'm ever in Cape Cod.
I love this guy's artwork....
i LOVE EG. I'm amazed you geot him to interview as he was notoriously reclusive no? How did that come about. Can't wait to see the film.
I have always admired his works and turn my children on to Gashlycrumb tinies at an early age .....great way to learn the alphabet ! Mr. Gorey reminds me of a Goth Gary Larsen ( Far Side ) ~ I could'nt care less what his personal life was ,as long as he was happy with it .. the guy was a genius !!
cattailwindchimes YOU GAVE THAT BOOK TO CHILDREN ?!?
He also made this interesting comment: "I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems."
Always thought his voice was deeper, and a bit sad... :) Not what I expected but I love Gorey. He died on my birthday (not the year, though)...
In another interview (for Boston Magazine) he answered the same question as follows: "Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. (...) I never said that I was gay and I never said that I wasn't. A lot of people would say that I wasn't because I never do anything about it. What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else. Now people come up to you and say, 'I'm a press agent' or 'I'm a writer.' I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist."
That's funny, since many Americans still think he was British!
He said about Dracula: "I must say Dracula is not a project I would ever have taken to my bosom if they hadn't offered lots of money. Not that I have anything against it; it just doesn't interest me very much. I keep telling everybody plainly that what I really want to do is design sets & costumes for Gilbert & Sullivan or something like that." I'm sure other people will join in once they notice what a fascination discussion we have here!
I can see why he didn't like children that much...he's very impatient, and it looks like he gets annoyed by people very easily :P
Children ARE annoying. Indeed most adults are annoying as well. The man makes a wonderful point. Not everyone thinks precisely as YOU do... Christ how tedious.
luv his work
seductive...
hahaha that's the same question that I have, it's not the like I expect to find in his person , I mean , the way he move and express himself it's not like i saw him in my imagination (like a sweet granpa). But anyway I still thinking that he always has a great story to show
happy birthday
yeah~
Did you infer that I had a theisticly-based issue with it, or are you replacing "Hell" with "Christ" for reasons obscure? In either case, you're quite wrong.
That's such a generalization. Gorey was brilliant and continues to inspire, I'll leave it at that. Return to your bridge, troll.
Hes pretty much how I thought he would be..except for the voice.
@mooncusser
No, according to what I've read about him, he was indeed gay... Though I can't site my sources offhand.
When asked about his sexual preferences (in a New Yorker interview), he merely described himself as "reasonably undersexed" and went on to add that "I thought I was in love a couple of times, but I rather think it was only infatuation. It bothered me briefly, but I always got over it. (...) Cats have the same sort of nuisance value, so to speak. They occupy one." Note that he didn't say anything about the sex of his infatuations...
he reminds me of little edie from grey gardens =)
That's what I'd like to know as well.
I imagined him with a Sauramon accent.
@GeorgeThePirateKing i seriously thought he would .. sound like something out a tim burton flick..im so shocked
@GeorgeThePirateKing
That's so funny. I always imagined him that way, too. I was rather surprised to hear how different his voice was from my imaginings.
NO IT WASN'T. It was off Rte. 6A at a nifty place called "Jack's Out Back". There is only one "Jack's Out Back". It's not a bloody chain restaurant!
Why do you want to know if he's "gay"? What's your sexual orientation? BINGO! You've got it now! It's IRRELEVANT.
Huh? I simply wrote that there's a stereotype about how gay people speak. I didn't say I agree with this stereotype or support it.
He was claimed not to be a sexual person at all...PLEASE!!! HE READS TOTALLY GAY.
You're missing the point. Feeling attraction and being sexual is not the same thing.
brevity.
He was asexual Look it up.
What an amazingly talented gay artist
Dick Wick, He wasnt gay. He was asexual.
Ismael Melgar oh please lol he acts totally gay!!
Honestly, who cares what he did or didn't do with his sexuality? I'm so in awe of his humor and his artistry and his being a successful and recognized and respected artist, rather than a starving artist. Lovely man, apparently.