Animation Quotes · Page 16

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past,

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

“Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.”

— Andrew Osmond

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

— John Lasseter

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it…

— Bill Plympton

Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI.

— Jason Blum

Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation.

— Jagapathi Babu

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

— Lee Unkrich

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my…

— Jim Davis

I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell…

— Pete Docter

No matter what happens with technology or whether you're in traditional animation or stop-motion or CG, the biggest challenge always is story.…

— Christopher Meledandri

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow…

— Tomm Moore

Historically, stop-motion animation has had a jerky-jerky quality, which is a constant reminder to audiences that they're looking at artificial objects. It…

— Travis Knight

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of…

— Havelock Ellis

In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit…

— Mark Roth

I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance.I got to…

— Andreas Deja

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's…

— Travis Knight

When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation.…

— Nick Park

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a…

— St. Lucia

One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't…

— Pamela Adlon

With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is…

— Anonymous

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different…

— Marjane Satrapi

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI…

— Peter Jackson

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

— Sonakshi Sinha

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool…

— Rick Baker

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell…

— Kevin Conroy

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see…

— John Lasseter

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the…

— Edward Tufte

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I…

— Bill Watterson

“You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can…

— Robert Karl Hanson

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

— John Kricfalusi

Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know,…

— Joe Flaherty

Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's…

— Jim Lee

I've always been into visual effects. It was something I took keen interest in before films happened. Ironically, I am a part…

— Emraan Hashmi

We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be…

— John Musker

Live-action movies are all about looking as real as possible, making you believe, 'I really am on Mars,' or, 'I really am…

— Stephen Schwartz

And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see…

— Pete Docter

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally…

— Andy Serkis

If I'm doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I'm doing three different voices, you've gotta separate them. You've gotta…

— Pamela Adlon

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of…

— Simon Schama