Animation Quotes · Page 13

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

— Lee Unkrich

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my…

— Jim Davis

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it…

— Bill Plympton

“You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can…

— Robert Karl Hanson

Steve Carell is good. I like him. Who else? Here's another depressing thing: animation has kind of taken over, too. You know,…

— Joe Flaherty

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

— John Kricfalusi

Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's…

— Jim Lee

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the…

— Edward Tufte

In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went…

— John Musker

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

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed…

— John Lasseter

I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never…

— Virginia Madsen

The animators bring their own spontaneity to it as well, because when they do a take of a shot it really is…

— Wes Anderson

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people…

— Jeff Smith

If you are going to describe the history of animation, you'd look at the early Disney work, then 'Bugs Bunny,' 'Road Runner'…

— Ray Bradbury

Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens…

— Neal Adams

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see…

— John Lasseter

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I…

— Bill Watterson

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell…

— Kevin Conroy

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different…

— Marjane Satrapi

People regard CGI as a gimmick; they almost blame CGI for a bad story or a bad script. They talk about CGI…

— Peter Jackson

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool…

— Rick Baker

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

— Sonakshi Sinha

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

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

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

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

— 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

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

— James Frain

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

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

— Tomm Moore

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

— Ralph Bakshi

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

“Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.”

— Andrew Osmond