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The Brothers Quay with Ryan Deussing (interview date 9 February 1996)

SOURCE: An interview with the Brothers Quay, in ThingReviews, February 9, 1996. http://www.thing.net/ttreview/febrev.02.html (17 April 1996).

[In the following interview, which was originally published on the Internet, the Quays discuss Institute Benjamenta and their transition to live-action filmmaking.]

[Deussing]: You both went to Art School—first in Philadelphia and then in England—and wound up working as animators. Is that what you planned on all along?

[Brothers Quay]: We started off as illustrators, drawers, and it was because we became frustrated by the stillness of that image, the lack of sound, of depth, of music, we figured there had to be another way to go. We managed in school to do some 2D, cut-out animation shorts, but we were frustrated by that as...

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