here we present some things we found from the time michael was creating his thriller album and short film. enjoy!

This is at the end of the day, the end of a 12 hour day, when Michael is getting his makeup taken off, and this is very painful, almost like someone is ripping bandages off of you. And that's the wonderful thing about Michael, is that he never became angry, even when he was tired, even when he was in pain, and you can see the pain here. He was never short with people, and he was never loud.
-Douglas Kirkland.

In the recordings, Jackson is heard saying, "Thriller sounded so crap. The mixes sucked. When we listened to the whole album, there were tears... I just cried like a baby. I stormed out of the room and said, 'We're not releasing this'."
But a visit to a local school playground convinced Jackson to change his mind.
He said, "One of the maintenance crew in the studio had a bicycle and so I took it and rode up to the schoolyard. I just watched the children play. When I came back I was ready to rule the world. I went into the studio and I turned them songs out."

"It was a delicate thing to work on because I remember my original approach was, "how do you make zombies and monsters dance without it being comical?" So I said, we have to do just the right kind of movement so it doesn't become something that you laugh at but it just has to be, you know, take it to another level. So I got in a room with Michael Peters and he and I together kind of imagined how these zombies should move by making faces in the mirror and I used to come to rehearsal sometime with monster make up on — I love doing that —" Michael Jackson on the making of Thriller

I remember being in the studio once with Quincy and Rod Temperton while we were working on Thriller. I was playing a pinball machine and one of them asked me, "If this album doesn't do as well as Off the Wall, will you be disappointed?" I remember feeling upset - hurt that the question was even raised. I told them thriller had to do better than Off the Wall. I admitted that I wanted this album to be the biggest selling album of all time. They started laughing. it was a seemingly unrealistic thing to want...The success of Thriller transformed many of my dreams into reality. It did become the biggest selling album of all time, and that fact appeared on the cover of The Guinness Book of World Records." -Michael Jackson

"there were many hours of makeup that had to be applied for michael's transformations, and during that time, he was very relaxed, even if he was limited in his movement. the only way he could drink was through a straw. but i've never seen anybody be more patient and calm under stress, but he could not have been comfortable." — douglas kirkland, the making of 'thriller'

"Ever since I was a little boy, I had dreamed of creating the biggest-selling record of all time. I remember going swimming as a child and making a wish before I jumped into the pool. I wanted to do something special. I'd stretch my arms out, as if I were sending my thoughts right up into space. I'd make my wish, then I'd dive into the water. I'd say to myself, 'This is my dream. This is my wish', every time before I'd dive into the water...

Making the Thriller album was very hard work, but it's true that you only get out of something what you put into it. I'm a perfectionist: I'll work until I drop. And I worked so hard on that album." -Michael Jackson.