Animation Quotes · Page 3

Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.

— Lucrecia Martel

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

— Tara Strong

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

— Alexander Cockburn

There's nothing like watching hand-drawn animation on the big screen.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

— Annette Funicello

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

— Cheech Marin

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

— John Cassavetes

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

— Dan Scanlon

I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past,

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

— John Lasseter

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw.…

— Ralph Bakshi

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial…

— Vera Brosgol

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to…

— Matt Groening

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio…

— Takashi Murakami

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

— Brit Marling

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

— Diedrich Bader

Animation wasn't my love, but drawing was. I loved drawing, and when it came time to graduate from high school, I looked…

— Harland Williams

One of the tricky things with animation is, because we spend four years on the movie and everything is done so methodically…

— Lee Unkrich

I think you have to know these fellows definitely before you can draw them. When you start to caricature a person,you can't…

— Walt Disney

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and…

— John Updike

When you think of painting as painting it is rather absurd. The real world is before us - glorious sunlight and activity…

— Wayne Thiebaud

In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the…

— Seth Shostak

I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed…

— Satoshi Tajiri

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he…

— Augustus William Hare

In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of…

— Jim Parsons

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the…

— Katsuhiro Otomo

I generally go into a movie with a very strong vision, with how I want to make the film, how I want…

— James Wan

I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's…

— Andrea Romano

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is…

— Ray Bradbury

I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice…

— Hayao Miyazaki

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

— Seth MacFarlane

I've always loved animation and animated films.

— Michael Sheen

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

— Marc Davis

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

— Lucille Bliss

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

— Bill Plympton

I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.

— Rza

I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

— Jeff Bennett

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

— Babatunde Adebimpe