Oliver Postgate Quotes

1925–2008 England

Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer, and writer. He was the creator and writer of several popular British children's television programmes.

England
Film producers

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Come to think of it I must have produced some of the clumsiest animation ever to disgrace the television screen, but it didn’t matter. The viewers didn’t notice because they were enjoying the stories.

Does Children's Television Matter? (2003)

Their [politicians] words and phrases are skillfully chosen to keep us complacent and confident in our fairly comfortable world. We don’t usually notice this because ours is a world in which whether or not the words we are offered are true rarely makes much difference to our lives. But, out in the real world, the way words are used or misused can make the difference between life and death.

Personal website (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oliver Postgate (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.