Animators Quote by Andy Serkis

I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in…

— John Musker

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

— Seth MacFarlane

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact…

— Tim Burton

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

— Laurie Simmons

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.

— Andy Serkis

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

— Gordon Quinn

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

— Terry Gilliam

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make…

— Gus Van Sant

Watching Ray Harryhausen's films growing up was a pure joy. He brought legends to life and he became a legend himself. And I am…

— Joe Letteri

The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is…

— Elisa Kreisinger