Animation Quotes · Page 9

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

— Darren Aronofsky

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

— Walt Disney

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an…

— Michael Giacchino

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation…

— Chris Wedge

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure,…

— Kirsten Lepore

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action.…

— Walt Disney

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul…

— Luiz Bolognesi

Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you couldn't get away with…

— Christopher Miller

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify…

— Eric Stoltz

The reality of animation is that it's a complicated thing to get a movie to a studio to make, because they typically…

— Rob Minkoff

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the…

— John Lasseter

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion…

— Henry Selick

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first…

— Matt Groening

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.…

— St. Lucia

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies…

— Jacques Lacan

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and…

— Henry Selick

I've been fascinated with gargoyles since I was a kid. I took a high school trip to Europe, the 8 countries in…

— Greg Weisman

“On one hand, the state of being “animated” implies the most general of all affective conditions (that of being “moved” in one…

— Sianne Ngai

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

— Roy Conli

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

— Nick Park

Animation has revitalized a part of my brain that says, 'Oh yeah, I do like doing this. This is fun.'

— Patti Harrison

Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or…

— Henry Selick

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

— Al Yankovic

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't…

— Billy Campbell

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really…

— Ben Schwartz

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

— Chris Hardwick

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the…

— Walt Disney

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

— Lee Unkrich

That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.

— Phil Lord

I don't remember the very first animation I saw, but the one that stays deepest in my memory is definitely 'Astro Boy.'

— Akira Toriyama

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

— Jan de Bont

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like…

— Akira Toriyama

I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.

— Kelly Asbury

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

— Margaret Wertheim

I've always kind of had a voice that people have commented on. And I've always really loved animation and voiceover. I was…

— Ayo Edebiri