Biography for
Gary Rydstrom More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

1959, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth Name

Gary Roger Rydstrom

Spouse

Cindy

(? - ?)

Personal Quotes

I'll always love sound, but sound comes at the end of the process. And I went to film school, I wanted to make films, and I was yearning to get involved at the beginning of the process. Sound is great, but there's so much that happens before then. So it's really just due to having a lucky break and an opportunity that Pixar gave me at an opportune time in my life. I was very lucky.

To tell you the truth, I went into film because I liked physical comedy. That's my love. My career in sound was ironic, because I got into film because I love Chaplin and Keaton. And then I ended up doing sound for 20 years.

Sound effects editing and sound design to me is a lot like knitting. And sometimes I think that it's like quilting. Or sometimes I even think that it's like arranging knick knacks in a cabinet and you just want the knick knacks to look right, where you place them, which one looks good. All of these analogies I consider bad and not very manly, so I decided sound effects editing is actually more like flying a fighter jet. But not really. It's more like quilting.