Animation Quotes · Page 7

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

— Genndy Tartakovsky

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

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

— Babatunde Adebimpe

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my…

— St. Lucia

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're…

— Ralph Bakshi

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move…

— Aaron Ehasz

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends…

— Dan Scanlon

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

— Nicholas Stoller

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to…

— Henry Selick

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

— Richard Burton

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

— St. Lucia

One of the things I've learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good…

— Paul Dini

Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if…

— Linda Woolverton

Typically in animation, the characters exist in a kind of stasis. Look at 'The Simpsons' - they never age, the baby never…

— Lee Unkrich

I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive…

— Walt Disney

I used to do stop motion in my own garage and Claymation and all that stuff. That led to doing backgrounds and…

— Robert Stromberg

And as particles are living digital elements, moving on their own according to the various attributes (such as weight, speed, shape) given…

— Martine Epoque

Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early…

— Pete Docter

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

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make…

— John Lasseter

Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The…

— Louis Bernacchi

I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is…

— Steve Martin

Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have…

— Werner Herzog

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

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

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

— Douglas Wood

My animation work is a major source of pride for me.

— Cree Summer

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.

— Genndy Tartakovsky