Animation Quotes · Page 5

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

— John Noble

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

— Steve Dildarian

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

— Chuck Jones

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

— Alfred Sisley

Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

— Mark Roth

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

— Keanu Reeves

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

— John Lasseter

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

— Emilie de Ravin

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the…

— Richard Burton

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

— Desson Thomson

If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so…

— Bill Plympton

This CGI bullshit is the death knell of cinema. If I'd wanted all that computer game bullshit, I'd have stuck my dick…

— Quentin Tarantino

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying…

— Don Bluth

Animation is my love, but I think there's definitely room in live-action. I mean, 'Iron Man 2' was fun, and I got…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

— Mamoru Hosoda

“While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it’s the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.”

— Tommy Yune

If I'm going to shoot a damn, I'm going to storyboard it. I have a shot list for what I want to…

— Kelly Reichardt

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it…

— Rian Johnson

In Fleetwood Mac I have a persona, I call myself the 'Spider Woman'. I try to imagine myself putting on a spider…

— Stevie Nicks

Whether I'm directing live action or animation, my responsibility is the same. I have an audience sitting in a theater with their…

— Lee Unkrich

A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle…

— Bruce Timm

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain…

— Fede Alvarez

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very…

— Henry Selick

The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not…

— Raul Garcia

“There seems to be an audience that demands everything be explained to them that everything be easy. And I don t think…

— Alan Moore

This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that…

— Marcel Proust

I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's…

— Andrea Romano

I generally go into a movie with a very strong vision, with how I want to make the film, how I want…

— James Wan

I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice…

— Hayao Miyazaki

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is…

— Ray Bradbury

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for.…

— Henry Selick

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he…

— Augustus William Hare

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

— Susan Sontag

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

— Gore Verbinski

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

— John Lasseter

I've had to learn how to control my animation.

— Jay Williams

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

— Amy Hill

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

— Aziz Ansari

I think animation can tell more than live action.

— Makoto Shinkai

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

— Randy Rainbow