Animation Quotes · Page 6

I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

— Jeff Bennett

I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.

— Rza

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

— Bill Plympton

In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.

— John Knoll

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

— Seth Rogen

There's nothing like watching hand-drawn animation on the big screen.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

— Cheech Marin

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

— Cai Guo-Qiang

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

— Don Bluth

I have a confession. I don't enjoy animation. I have no idea why because I absolutely adore doing voiceovers. I think part…

— Toyah Willcox

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that…

— John Lasseter

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going…

— Jim Cummings

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

— Gerald Scarfe

If you look in the animal world, many, many organisms will enter into states of suspended animation.

— Mark Roth

In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of…

— Laura Mullen

I find that I have done a pretty good job of fusing all three of them so far and I intend to…

— St. Lucia

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and…

— John Lasseter

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this…

— Henry Selick

Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts…

— Chuck Jones

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way…

— Sergio Aragones

There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation…

— Craig Ferguson

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to…

— Mamoru Oshii

The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the…

— Katsuhiro Otomo

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of…

— Jim Parsons

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think…

— Jeff Bezos

I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work…

— Michel Gondry

Here's my take, for what it's worth: I think that a lot of people in the US, as well as other countries,…

— Mark Walton

Toward the end of the film ['Life, Animated'] we see 'The Sidekicks Story,' and that is a story that Owen drew himself.…

— Roger Ross Williams

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

— Annette Funicello

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

— Lucille Bliss

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

— Marc Davis

I've always loved animation and animated films.

— Michael Sheen

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

— Dan Scanlon

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

— Seth MacFarlane

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

— John Cassavetes

To me, the future of TV and movies is going to be 3-D animation.

— Fabio Lanzoni