Animation Quotes · Page 9

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

— H. Jon Benjamin

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

— Big Show

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to…

— Steve Martin

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

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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

— Takashi Murakami

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

— Matt Groening

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

— James Frain

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination…

— Bill Plympton

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for…

— Joe Murray

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

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

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

— Wayne Thiebaud

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

Our ethos for 'Now You See Me 2' was that everything in the movie at least had the potential to be done…

— Keith Barry

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

— Gerald Scarfe

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

You look at Japan and Hayao Miyazaki's films are the biggest films ever made in Japan; domestically there and they play to…

— Chris Wedge

The amazing fact that one person can make his own film - I think animation is somewhat unique in that respect. I…

— Bill Plympton

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator…

— John Lasseter

Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.

— Tomm Moore

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both…

— Peter Jackson

Scoring animated films, I have the exact same approach and philosophy as I do for a live action. It's all story- and…

— Michael Giacchino

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

— Mike Judge

The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated…

— Steve Dildarian

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation…

— Michel Gondry

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

Coming from the world of animation, every single line counts; every single gesture counts. You put thought into every single one of…

— Travis Knight

I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If…

— Steven Spielberg

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to…

— Seth MacFarlane

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication…

— Walt Disney

All animation is a tremendous amount of work, but when you put 'Star Wars' on the top of something, there's already this…

— Dave Filoni

I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long…

— Henry Selick

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.

— Nobuo Uematsu

I'm not at my house storyboarding, and telling them they need to move from A to B, 'Move here and then there.'…

— Niki Caro

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up…

— Neill Blomkamp

Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.

— Henry Selick

Back when I watched 'Future Boy Conan,' I thought I might like to try my hand at animation, but now, not at…

— Akira Toriyama