Animation Quotes · Page 10

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices…

— Rasika Dugal

The identity of Studio Ghibli movies are how the characters move. They move like live, real people.

— Makoto Shinkai

Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because…

— Kirsten Lepore

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation…

— Walt Dohrn

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

— Robin Williams

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't…

— Terry Gilliam

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever…

— Adam McKay

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

— Ralph Bakshi

Jewish history has been in my cultural DNA since I was a child growing up in post-war London. In the midst of…

— Simon Schama

On 'The Dragon Prince', we wanted to push that even more to leverage the strengths of a CG and 3D pipeline. We…

— Aaron Ehasz

I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are…

— Frank Welker

It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I…

— Alex Abreu

The cost of an animated film really comes down to man hours. If you gather together world-class talent, then the question becomes…

— Chris Meledandri

I went to the archives to see what Dumbo work there was, not for current film, but just for my love of…

— Peter Sohn

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story…

— Ralph Bakshi

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent…

— Steve Burns

People have been declaring stop-motion dead for a generation. But living in the digital age, people appreciate the art of craft, or…

— Travis Knight

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

— Matt Groening

I'm always impressed with the work of animators. You have to be able to draw the scenes in between movements. I'm impressed…

— Akira Toriyama

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is…

— Lee Unkrich

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

— Wes Anderson

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

— Steve Martin

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.…

— JWoww

With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them…

— Mamoru Hosoda

We used to make a 'Tom and Jerry' short every six weeks and they were about six minutes long, so we were…

— William Hanna

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

— Gore Verbinski

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

— Cory Barlog

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure,…

— Kirsten Lepore

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action.…

— Walt Disney

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an…

— Michael Giacchino

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation…

— Chris Wedge

Disney's animation division is the modern equivalent of the old studio system - which I believe is a better way to make…

— Rob Minkoff

As an actor and singer, I loved to draw and I thought animation was a perfect combination of all those things.

— Rob Minkoff

Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no…

— Henry Selick

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and…

— Cheryl Hines

Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on…

— Gabriel Campisi

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

Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or…

— Henry Selick

Animation has revitalized a part of my brain that says, 'Oh yeah, I do like doing this. This is fun.'

— Patti Harrison

I'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't…

— Billy Campbell