People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now…

There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of…

— Matt Groening

All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

— Dean DeBlois

Joanna Priestley is one of the most interesting and adept personal animators and filmmakers. I have enjoyed her work for years and been amazed…

— Gus Van Sant

We want to be proud of our work and make sure it's worth the talent of the animators, who spent four years of their…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but…

— Chuck Jones

Sometimes I am just playing the character. I will move out of the way of the microphone, and they will have to tell me.…

— Antonio Banderas

Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And I am…

— Joe Letteri

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

— Walt Disney

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've…

— Ralph Bakshi

The animators are fantastic though. They'll shoot their own reference material, and just go into the car park or something. And they might shoot…

— Chris Sanders

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

— Katsuhiro Otomo

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

— Ralph Bakshi

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this…

— John Lasseter

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

— Henry Selick

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

— Luiz Bolognesi