There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I…

I think stop-motion has always been semi-obsolete. And stop-motion animators - people like myself - love it so much that we're always going to…

— Henry Selick

I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments. There's hair,…

— Henry Selick

You know, I love stop-motion. I've done almost all the styles of animation: I was a 2D animator. I've done cutout animation. I did…

— Henry Selick

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in…

— Henry Selick

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our…

— Henry Selick

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

— Henry Selick

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 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