Animation Quotes · Page 6

We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.

— Victor Navone

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

— David Ansen

I don't necessarily consider myself part of the animation world.

— Steve Dildarian

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

— John Lasseter

I love classic animation, and I especially love classic cartoon music.

— Michael Giacchino

Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

— Hayao Miyazaki

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

— John Lasseter

To me, the future of TV and movies is going to be 3-D animation.

— Fabio Lanzoni

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool…

— Selena Gomez

Nobody does animation better than Disney; it's just that some of us wanted out of the box. Burton was one. I was…

— Henry Selick

'How To Train your Dragon 2' is an amazing film. I think it's an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic.

— Andy Serkis

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

— John Lasseter

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs…

— Agnes Repplier

Special effects are becoming more and more affordable and looking more and more like the real thing.

— Jed Mercurio

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

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

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience.…

— John Leguizamo

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain…

— Fede Alvarez

In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of…

— Laura Mullen

The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not…

— Raul Garcia

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very…

— Henry Selick

I find that I have done a pretty good job of fusing all three of them so far and I intend to…

— St. Lucia

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this…

— Henry Selick

Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts…

— Chuck Jones

With all the hype that computer graphics has been getting, everybody thinks there's nothing better than CGI, but I do get a…

— Ray Harryhausen

The most fun is to inhabit the world where cartoon physics is king. And that just means that things move with kind…

— Chris Wedge

I love all sorts of animation, probably the most beautiful would be the tradtional hand drawn animation that Disney is known for.…

— Henry Selick

I do have huge pressure in terms of making my animation, because a lot of audiences and producers are expecting me to…

— Mamoru Oshii

A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he…

— Augustus William Hare

The industry in Japan moving toward CGI is not as severe and extreme as in the U.S. The animation industry in the…

— Katsuhiro Otomo

In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of…

— Jim Parsons

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

— Phil Lord

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

— Walt Disney

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

— Steven Spielberg

“I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.”

— Mary Shelley

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

— Bryan Konietzko

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

— Colin O'Donoghue

There's nothing like watching hand-drawn animation on the big screen.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

— Annette Funicello