I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films. — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them… — Douglas Wood Copy Share Image
I love working with rotoscopic animation because under the incredible handpainted artwork are real actors and real human performances. — Keith Maitland Copy Share Image
Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's… — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Let's get real: the .GIF format is outdated and is not really that great for the modern web anymore. It was created… — Alan Schaaf Copy Share Image
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world… — Neal H. Moritz Copy Share Image
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting… — John Musker Copy Share Image
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice… — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
One of the big moments of my life was watching 'Star Wars' on its opening weekend in Hollywood. I was watching all… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
It's a hilarious part of my past, all the sitcoms I did in the '80s. And then all the animation - animation… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything. — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh. — William Hanna Copy Share Image
I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first. — Garth Davis Copy Share Image
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot. — Ben Wheatley Copy Share Image
To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it… — Bud Luckey Copy Share Image
It's very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Animation's a small industry, and no matter where you go you're going to meet your friends from CalArts. — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want… — Angela Bettis Copy Share Image
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination. — Jeffrey Katzenberg Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study animation.… — Nick Park Copy Share Image
I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
Although I've watched most of Spielberg's films, I haven't watched many animated films. I prefer reality over animation. — Jagapathi Babu Copy Share Image
Unless you're making Marvel movies, I think CGI usually suffers, especially in mid-budget-range horror movies where you see CGI. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
