“Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators. — Dean DeBlois Copy Share Image
I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there. — Jason Marsden Copy Share Image
Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point. — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in. — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an… — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps. — Bill Plympton Copy Share Image
In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing… — Steve Dildarian Copy Share Image
I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It's a high honor to be a part of the Star Wars universe and such a long running show. Our talented writers,… — Matt Lanter Copy Share Image
The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments.… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Since the waiting time required during the rendering process has been dramatically shorter in the last 10 years, I think that CGI… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
There's this whole grey area seemingly every time it's talked about animators and who takes ultimate responsibility for the characters [of the… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“The definition of superb animation is that each character on the screen makes you believe it is a thinking being. Whether it’s… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul… — Luiz Bolognesi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it… — Bud Luckey Copy Share Image
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
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