Animation Quotes · Page 6

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

— Andy Samberg

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

— Dave Filoni

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

— Emilie de Ravin

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

— John Lasseter

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

— Keanu Reeves

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

— Gore Verbinski

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

— Susan Sontag

Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

— Mark Roth

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

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see…

— John Lasseter

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the…

— Edward Tufte

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell…

— Kevin Conroy

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI…

— Peter Jackson

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool…

— Rick Baker

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

— Sonakshi Sinha

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different…

— Marjane Satrapi

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix…

— Henry Selick

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to…

— Raul Garcia

I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as…

— Hayao Miyazaki

In the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you’re a fat woman, you can play a skinny…

— Chris Rock

I hate when people go on TV and tell you how hard it is to do animation. No, no, no. UPS is…

— Chris Rock

Sometimes you're talking to a tennis ball on a stick, and you have to imagine what is supposed to be there and…

— Ray Fisher

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they…

— Alex Hirsch

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

In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that…

— Marv Wolfman

Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that…

— Anne Lamott

Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what…

— Pete Docter

I do have more directorial control over animation, because it's like trial and error: If something doesn't work, you can always go…

— Mamoru Oshii

“There seems to be an audience that demands everything be explained to them that everything be easy. And I don t think…

— Alan Moore

This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that…

— Marcel Proust

I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always…

— Michel Gondry

People are funny -- they are able to project personality onto anything. I remember as a kid I spent a $ 5…

— Pete Docter

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

— Randy Rainbow

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

— Amy Hill

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

— Aziz Ansari

I think animation can tell more than live action.

— Makoto Shinkai

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

— John Lasseter

I've had to learn how to control my animation.

— Jay Williams

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

— Chuck Jones

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

— Steve Dildarian