There is something I feel when I animate something; you…

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop…

— Marc Davis

I used to think that animation was about moving stuff. In order to make it really great, you bounce it, squash it, stretch it,…

— Glen Keane

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by…

— John Kricfalusi

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

— Wes Anderson

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking…

— Henry Selick

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through…

— David Bolinsky

I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called…

— Glen Keane

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.

— Spike Jonze

Don't animate drawings, animate feelings.

— Ollie Johnston

Believe in the character; animate with sincerity

— Glen Keane

A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent…

— Seth Shostak

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job,…

— Nolan North

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a…

— Andy Serkis