Animation Quotes · Page 12

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you…

— Dan Castellaneta

When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72.…

— Mark Hamill

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of…

— Henry Selick

I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in…

— Matt Groening

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

— John Hench

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

— Bill Watterson

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

— Ralph Bakshi

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

— Peter Sohn

If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it…

— Jonathan Freeman

Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its…

— Walt Disney

'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for…

— Pete Docter

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was…

— John Lasseter

I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've…

— Atticus Shaffer

So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite…

— Steve Martin

Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,…

— Ivan Turgenev

And it's about a three-month process every screening. And that way we have seven or eight chances at the film before we…

— Pete Docter

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

— Brad Bird

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

— Steve Dildarian

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

— Mark Walton

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

— Tim Burton

In feature animation, cartoony or exaggerated animation is almost taboo. There is this precedent that if you do that kind of stuff…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

— Alex Borstein

The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard…

— Judd Nelson

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

— Peter Dinklage

I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the…

— Charles Busch

I loved cartoons as a kid, and so many funny moments in animation for me are nonverbal sounds, unarticulated mouth noise.

— Alan Tudyk

Back when I watched 'Future Boy Conan,' I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at…

— Akira Toriyama

Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.

— Henry Selick

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up…

— Neill Blomkamp

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

— Ralph Bakshi

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation.…

— Steven Spielberg

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or…

— Stan Lee

There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I'm not at my house storyboarding, and telling them they need to move from A to B, 'Move here and then there.'…

— Niki Caro

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long…

— Henry Selick

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication…

— Walt Disney

All animation is a tremendous amount of work, but when you put 'Star Wars' on the top of something, there's already this…

— Dave Filoni

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to…

— Seth MacFarlane

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time.…

— Lev Yilmaz