Animation Quotes · Page 3

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

— Randy Rainbow

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

— John Lasseter

I've had to learn how to control my animation.

— Jay Williams

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

— Dale Carnegie

All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

— Dean DeBlois

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

— Barry Jenkins

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

— Chuck Jones

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

There was a manga boom, so I read 'Astro Boy,' 'Osomatsu-kun,' and such. But what influenced me the most were things like…

— Akira Toriyama

The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.

— Jan de Bont

That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.

— Phil Lord

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

— Lee Unkrich

Sheer animated fantasy is still my first and deepest production impulse. The fable is the best storytelling device ever conceived, and the…

— Walt Disney

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

“Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.”

— Helen McCarthy

I'm a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I've…

— Atticus Shaffer

Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,…

— Ivan Turgenev

So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite…

— Steve Martin

'In-between' is sort of - an animator does the key poses. He'll do extremes, you know, like a character reaching out for…

— Pete Docter

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was…

— John Lasseter

In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to…

— Henry Selick

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did…

— Wes Anderson

What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist…

— Henry Selick

“When Walt became all wrapped up in the theme parks and live-action films, we tried to get him interested in animation again,"…

— Charles Solomon

“In Hollywood, the real stars are all in animation. Alvin and the Chipmunks don't throw star fits, don't demand custom-designed Winnebagos, and…

— John Waters

As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended…

— Mamoru Oshii

Years and years of talking and writing versions of the script [Sausage Party] and looking at various versions of the animations -…

— Seth Rogen

I think that's always been part of the thinking behind the script, that - and I really tried really hard to impress…

— Aaron McGruder

If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the…

— Richard Linklater

I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap…

— Mike Royer

CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images…

— Darren Aronofsky

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

— Mario Cantone

I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Animation is not easy and requires a lot of work on detailing which need ample of time.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

— Andy Samberg

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

— Marc Davis

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

— Dave Filoni

Soundarya's kind of direction is animation. She's not into feature films, whereas I am.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

— Jeff Bezos