Animation Quotes · Page 9

Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create…

— Nathan Greno

“Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost.”

— Motoko Kusanagi ⎯ Ghost in the Shell (1995

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

— Phil Lord

I like doing everything. That's why I came to Pixar, as opposed to Disney or any other studio - it's small. At…

— Pete Docter

Everyone in animation is a performer to a degree.

— Rob Minkoff

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the…

— Smedley Butler

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't…

— Alex Abreu

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences…

— John Lasseter

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

— Klay Hall

In animation, you can throw away people's defense. You can go right to the center of things, right through inside someone's heart.…

— Timothy Dalton

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that…

— Brad Bird

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

— Pete Docter

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers…

— Bre Pettis

For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation…

— Akira Toriyama

I'm surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I'm just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to…

— Chris Wedge

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more…

— John Lasseter

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

— Alexander Cockburn

I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is…

— Kevin Conroy

Animation is just another way of telling a story.

— Christopher Miller

Aside from my love of animation, as an actor I like the total lack of vanity in terms of not having to…

— Justin Long

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a…

— Michael B. Jordan

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after…

— Emraan Hashmi

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

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,…

— Ivan Turgenev

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

— Alfred Sisley