Animation Quotes · Page 8

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

— Steve Dildarian

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

— John Lasseter

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

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Bill Plympton

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

— Jeff Bennett

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

— Rza

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

— Babatunde Adebimpe

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

— Seth Rogen

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the things that gives stop-motion its inherent magic is that you're seeing something imperfect and thus undeniably human - because…

— Travis Knight

With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when…

— Marjane Satrapi

I want to do voiceover for animation, so I am looking to do something along those lines. So, my agent is looking…

— Brooke Elliott

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the…

— James Webb Young

I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on…

— Noelle Stevenson

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything…

— John Lasseter

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not…

— Katherine Dunn

When you allow an animator to focus on a portion of the film and really understand the arc of the scene, what's…

— Travis Knight

I've always been into visual effects. It was something I took keen interest in before films happened. Ironically, I am a part…

— Emraan Hashmi

The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of…

— Havelock Ellis

In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit…

— Mark Roth

I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance.I got to…

— Andreas Deja

I do extensive storyboards so people can get a sense of what we're doing, and what the attitude and tone is. I…

— David Nutter

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite…

— Annie Potts

I didn't want 'Hotel Transylvania' to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

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

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 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

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

— Henry Selick

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

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

— Mamoru Oshii

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 can often defer decisions or make changes later.

— John Knoll

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

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

— Cheech Marin

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

— Dan Scanlon

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

— Seth MacFarlane

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

— John Cassavetes

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

— Lucille Bliss