Animation Quotes · Page 2

Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little…

— John Musker

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

— Travis Knight

Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.

— Anita Sarkeesian

In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went…

— John Musker

Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like…

— Martine Epoque

I think the animation helps divorce the violence from reality. The sex certainly doesn't look all that realistic. I think the fact…

— Adam Reed

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

One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do.…

— Diedrich Bader

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

— H. Jon Benjamin

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the…

— John C. Reilly

Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts…

— Chuck Jones

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Unlike other voice-over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was…

— Charles Fleischer

On the 'Tom and Jerry's,' Joe and I would sit across a desk from each other and develop the story. Joe would…

— William Hanna

Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if…

— Mamoru Oshii

As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended…

— Mamoru Oshii

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

— Ralph Bakshi

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

— Chris Hardwick

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I…

— Bill Watterson

Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint…

— Charlie Kaufman

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was…

— Gerald Scarfe

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

— Walt Disney

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one…

— Hayao Miyazaki

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

— Chuck Jones