Animation Quotes · Page 15

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

— Tunde Adebimpe

I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in…

— Matt Groening

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

— John Lasseter

If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may…

— Robert Adams

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of…

— Guido Palau

In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I…

— Hiro Murai

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

— John Lithgow

Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path,…

— David Furnish

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount…

— Gore Verbinski

I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is…

— Kevin Conroy

I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they'll put her on a green screen, and they'll have…

— Jason Statham

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first…

— Matt Groening

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies…

— Jacques Lacan

I find that I have improved in my craft and I have improved considerably in my ability to critique other people's artwork.…

— St. Lucia

In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at…

— Vera Brosgol

There's the animation ghetto of feature films in this country. There's this flavor at DreamWorks, and Pixar does their own thing, and…

— Henry Selick

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most…

— Sanaa Lathan

In feature animation, cartoony or exaggerated animation is almost taboo. There is this precedent that if you do that kind of stuff…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

— Brad Bird

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

— Peter Sohn

Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.

— Mark Walton

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

— Tim Burton

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

— Steve Dildarian

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

— Ralph Bakshi

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

— John Hench

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

— Bill Watterson

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid,…

— Bill Nighy

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions,…

— Phyllis Smith

I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig…

— Ramin Djawadi

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and…

— Carl Hiaasen

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

— Zack Snyder

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

— Travis Knight

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't…

— Karen Allen

I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

— Blair Underwood

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can…

— Lee Unkrich

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

— Stephen Hillenburg

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's…

— Daniel Clowes

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me…

— Ralph Bakshi

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

— Steve Carell

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action ,you're always fighting the…

— John C. Reilly