Friends Quote by Alex Hirsch

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do…

— Jeff Smith

I can speak to my experience and say that CalArts worked out very well for me. After CalArts, I went to Cartoon Network, and…

— Alex Hirsch

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

— Gore Verbinski

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

— Paul Newman

I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have…

— Bill Hader

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went…

— Boots Riley

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

— Nicholas Stoller

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

— Genndy Tartakovsky

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd…

— Gore Verbinski

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

— Margaret Wertheim

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios,…

— Tom Felton

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

— Lee Unkrich