Animation Quotes

Animation is manipulating the difference.

— Norman McLaren

I love great animation.

— Ron Perlman

I love doing both animation and live acting.

— Finn Wolfhard

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

— Gore Verbinski

I was always into cartoons and animation.

— Nonito Donaire

I've loved all forms of animation.

— Ming-Na Wen

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

— Lucy Liu

When in doubt, resort to animation.

— Michael Palin

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

— Anne Lamott

It's not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever.

— Stephen Hillenburg

In overseeing both Disney and Pixar Animation, each studio has a unique culture.

— John Lasseter

I like watching romantic comedies and animation.

— Ileana D'Cruz

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

— Taron Egerton

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

— H. Jon Benjamin

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

— Big Show

Initially, it was sort of devastating to lose full animation and go limited.

— William Hanna

Disney's animation division is the modern equivalent of the old studio system - which I believe is a better way to make…

— Rob Minkoff

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no…

— Henry Selick

As an actor and singer, I loved to draw and I thought animation was a perfect combination of all those things.

— Rob Minkoff

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and…

— Cheryl Hines

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on…

— Gabriel Campisi

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure,…

— Kirsten Lepore

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action.…

— Walt Disney

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an…

— Michael Giacchino

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first…

— Matt Groening

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies…

— Jacques Lacan

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.…

— St. Lucia

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and…

— Henry Selick

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at…

— Vera Brosgol

I hate when people go on TV and tell you how hard it is to do animation … No, UPS is hard…

— Chris Rock

The weird thing is, if I'd made 'The Incredibles,' shot-for-shot - exactly the same script, same timing, same shots - in live…

— Brad Bird

I want to give credit where credit is due to Eric Radomski, who is the head of our production for Marvel Animation…

— Jeph Loeb

You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to…

— Chris Wedge

Films are made the same today, as they've ever been made, in certain respects. The scriptwriting, the pre-production, the storyboarding, and the…

— Rob Minkoff

First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation,…

— Richard Sherman

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The definition of superb animation is that each character on the screen makes you believe it is a thinking being. Whether it’s…

— Ed Catmull

The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I…

— Bill Plympton

Years and years of talking and writing versions of the script [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations -…

— Seth Rogen

If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the…

— Richard Linklater