Animation Quotes · Page 7

Creative content is challenging, no matter what, and animation is particularly challenging.

— Kevin Reilly

Stop-motion is sort of the redheaded stepchild of animation. But it's incredibly beautiful.

— Travis Knight

Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.

— Jonah Hill

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

— Leonard Maltin

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

— Helena Bonham Carter

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

— Phil Lord

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

— Fabio Lanzoni

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

— Bryan Konietzko

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and…

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

— Travis Knight

I loved 'The Matrix,' so when they asked me to do some animation relating to it, I was thrilled.

— Shinichiro Watanabe

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work…

— Paul Newman

The walls between live-action and animation are becoming really porous, and it's interesting.

— Lee Unkrich

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting…

— Diedrich Bader

Every time you see an interior, where somebody has a cockpit, is the real existing thing. Every time you see the exterior…

— Daniel Simon

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program…

— Neil Patrick Harris

If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I…

— Mamoru Oshii

Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a…

— Anne Lamott

“I guess the basic difference is that animation is sequential in time but in spatially juxtaposed as comics are. Each successive frame…

— Scott McCloud

Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as…

— Travis Knight

The animators are fantastic though. They'll shoot their own reference material, and just go into the car park or something. And they…

— Chris Sanders

Live-action movies are all about looking as real as possible, making you believe, 'I really am on Mars,' or, 'I really am…

— Stephen Schwartz

And usually I'm not watching the screen. I'm kind of sitting and looking off to the side, spying on people to see…

— Pete Docter

We've always liked music in movies, you know, just 'cause it helps tell the story. It can be emotional. It can be…

— John Musker

I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work…

— Michel Gondry

I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think…

— Jeff Bezos

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

Here's my take, for what it's worth: I think that a lot of people in the US, as well as other countries,…

— Mark Walton

Toward the end of the film ['Life, Animated'] we see 'The Sidekicks Story,' and that is a story that Owen drew himself.…

— Roger Ross Williams

It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices,…

— John Leguizamo

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt…

— John Lasseter

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

— Mary Shelley

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

— Colin O'Donoghue

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Walt Disney

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

— David Ansen

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

— Victor Navone

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

— Michael Giacchino

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

— John Lasseter