Animation Quotes · Page 11

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

— Al Yankovic

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really…

— Ben Schwartz

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

— Nick Park

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul…

— Luiz Bolognesi

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you couldn't get away with…

— Christopher Miller

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

The thing about animation is that it's a constantly changing process. They talk in terms of sequences - so there's like thirty…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

I thought that if I could speed up the production of animation, I could make a big business out of recreating the…

— Jimmy Lai

CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s,…

— Quentin Tarantino

When you assemble animation teams the way you do a live-action film, you're often struggling a bit to get a cohesive team…

— Brad Bird

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot…

— Ray Harryhausen

I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's…

— Matt Groening

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't…

— Nick Park

War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of…

— Smedley Butler

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

— Roy Conli

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends…

— Dan Scanlon

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

— Nicholas Stoller

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my…

— St. Lucia

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move…

— Aaron Ehasz

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're…

— Ralph Bakshi

One of the things my dad told me when I was growing up was, 'Find your calling. Find what you're meant to…

— Travis Knight

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation. Those animation talents are hysterical. They're so good, and they're…

— Amy Hill

Shark Tale feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation.

— Desson Thomson

If I'm really feeling good and not having a lot of interruptions, I can do a minute of animation a day, so…

— Bill Plympton

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The…

— Pipilotti Rist

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to…

— Henry Selick

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the…

— Richard Burton

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

— Pete Docter

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

— John Lasseter

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

— John O'Hara

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

— Brad Bird

If I'm crisp and economical in my delivery, have smooth transitions, movement and animation, and flights of fancy, that would get me…

— Franklyn Ajaye

Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and…

— Charles Fleischer

For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.

— John Updike

There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I…

— Doug Sweetland