Animation Quotes · Page 15

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

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

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

— Patti Harrison

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

— Al Yankovic

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

— Nick Park

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

— Genndy Tartakovsky

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

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

— Henry Selick

When I was a kid, at Disneyland, they used to sell Animation Cels for $5.00 at a Fantasyland store. They were called…

— Tim Matheson

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only…

— David Tennant

I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try…

— Karthik Subbaraj

What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to…

— Eric Wight

Now that had worked very successfully at Pixar, and he ended up adding one at Walt Disney Animation and one at DTS.…

— Klay Hall

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists…

— John Kricfalusi

There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices…

— Chris DeWolfe

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

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't…

— Terry Gilliam

Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because…

— Kirsten Lepore

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation…

— Walt Dohrn

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

— Robin Williams

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever…

— Adam McKay

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

— Matt Groening

People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or…

— Travis Knight

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is…

— Lee Unkrich

I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed…

— Akira Toriyama

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

— Ralph Bakshi

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them…

— Mamoru Hosoda

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.…

— JWoww

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

— Wes Anderson

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

— Steve Martin

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

— Cory Barlog

We used to make a 'Tom and Jerry' short every six weeks and they were about six minutes long, so we were…

— William Hanna

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

— Gore Verbinski

One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going…

— Jim Cummings

I have a confession. I don't enjoy animation. I have no idea why because I absolutely adore doing voiceovers. I think part…

— Toyah Willcox

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that…

— John Lasseter