Animation Quotes · Page 7

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

— Cheech Marin

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

— Marc Davis

I've always loved animation and animated films.

— Michael Sheen

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

— Lucille Bliss

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

— John Cassavetes

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

— Seth MacFarlane

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

— Dan Scanlon

I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.

— Rza

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real,…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

— Nicholas Stoller

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends…

— Dan Scanlon

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move…

— Aaron Ehasz

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're…

— Ralph Bakshi

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my…

— St. Lucia

First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The…

— Pipilotti Rist

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the…

— Richard Burton

When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be alive, living, breathing thinking and…

— John Lasseter

I used to think that animation was about moving stuff. In order to make it really great, you bounce it, squash it,…

— Glen Keane

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up…

— Craig McCracken

“Even an ostensibly degree-zero affect like animatedness has a version of this subjective/objective problematic at its core—namely, the question of whether “animation”…

— Sianne Ngai

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a…

— Hayao Miyazaki

There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation…

— Craig Ferguson

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way…

— Sergio Aragones

Dr. Paul Ekman, who worked in San Francisco - still does - which is where Pixar Animation Studios is, he had early…

— Pete Docter

I generally go into a movie with a very strong vision, with how I want to make the film, how I want…

— James Wan

I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's…

— Andrea Romano

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is…

— Ray Bradbury

I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice…

— Hayao Miyazaki

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make…

— John Lasseter

I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is…

— Steve Martin

Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The…

— Louis Bernacchi

Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so…

— Terry Gilliam

I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.

— Jeff Bennett

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

— Babatunde Adebimpe

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

— Bill Plympton

In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.

— John Knoll

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

— Seth Rogen

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

— Douglas Wood

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

My animation work is a major source of pride for me.

— Cree Summer