Live action Quotes

I only think in live action.

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

I think animation can tell more than live action.

— Makoto Shinkai

Most Pixar films are better than most live action films.

— Wesley Morris

I'm a huge 'Dragon Ball Z' fan, so when they were trying to make a live-action movie, I was, like, 'No!'

— Ashleigh Murray

I can't remember the last live-action, non-animated Christmas movie.

— Bob Newhart

We're always striving to make Avatar look like a cinematic, live-action movie.

— Bryan Konietzko

Live action movies are someone else's story. With animation, audiences can't think that. Their guards are down.

— Lee Unkrich

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

— Jonah Hill

Very few people have made the transition from animation to live-action; I'm certainly not one.

— Henry Selick

Stop-motion is filmmaking at the pace of a glacier. In live action, you're moving so quickly.

— Travis Knight

3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the…

— Ang Lee

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic…

— Patrick Warburton

Going into live action, the perception I had was that to be a director, you had to be loud, you had be…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do…

— Joshua Rush

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or…

— Ryan Reynolds

The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be…

— Christopher Meledandri

I honestly think that half- animated/half-live action movies like 'Stuart Little' are the way forward: technology now achieves photorealism. The impossible is…

— Rob Minkoff

You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that's making great movies…

— John Lasseter

Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as…

— Jeremy Shada

It's awesome, because in live-action, most of my comedies have been rated R, so I'm trying to make adults laugh. While animation…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

'Your Name' is a film created with the innate imaginations of a Japanese team and put together in a domestic medium. When…

— Makoto Shinkai

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

— Steve Martin

In animation, no one gets to see your face, so you can really mess up with your voice like I did 'ParaNorman;'…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will…

— Trevor Rabin

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used…

— Don Bluth

Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a…

— Felicia Day

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

— John Lasseter

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

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

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

— Zack Snyder

The 3D, it changes the way you shoot in a way, especially when you're shooting live action 3D elements.

— Bryan Singer

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

— Jeremy Shada

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

— Lee Unkrich

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

— Andy Serkis

I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film.

— Steve Martin

Animation is a completely different world than live action.

— Jenna Ortega

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

— Robin Williams

The desire to avoid meltdowns actually is one of the things that screws up live-action films.

— Edwin Catmull

If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.

— Phil Foglio

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.

— Genndy Tartakovsky