Animation Quotes · Page 13

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Kelly Asbury

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

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

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

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

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

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it…

— Chris Wedge

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

— David Bolinsky

Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s.…

— Ray Harryhausen

The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their…

— Wes Anderson

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my…

— Chris Buck

I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation…

— Steven Spielberg

If [hand-drawn animation] is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters…

— Hayao Miyazaki

For whatever reason, I think we have one type of animated movie and it's so wrong. I want to do a drama,…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Characters in animation do not cheat. They do not let you go for another. Animation is on certain points, very close to…

— Hideaki Anno

I do not draw any of the pictures for my movies as an animator. The reason for that is that I am…

— Mamoru Hosoda

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

— Ralph Bakshi

I never imagined that I'd end up in animation, but marine biology and art collided, and here we are!

— Stephen Hillenburg

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and…

— Mick Ebeling

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

— Kenneth Branagh

For all the spectacle of CGI, there's something alien and unreal about that domain, like a videogame.

— John Hillcoat

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

— Walt Disney

Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him…

— Geoff Johns

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation…

— Mamoru Hosoda

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a…

— Michael Arndt

The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where…

— Phil Lord

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

— Bill Nighy

The boom of Disney animation in the late 80s and 90s, was fueled by the success of the older films on video.

— Rob Minkoff

I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing…

— Steve Dildarian

I actually think storyboards are great. I don't draw well enough to do them myself. I've only used storyboards a couple of…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure…

— Cary Fukunaga

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not…

— Katherine Dunn

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything…

— John Lasseter

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the…

— James Webb Young

I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on…

— Noelle Stevenson

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

— John C. Maxwell

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when…

— Marjane Satrapi

I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking…

— Brooke Elliott

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program…

— Neil Patrick Harris

Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior…

— Daniel Simon