Action Quote by Brad Bird

I'm surrounded by a lot of live-action movie professionals, and I'm just taking their lead, as far as what to schedule to do next.…

— Chris Wedge

Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if the project…

— Mamoru Oshii

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

— Nicholas Stoller

That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.

— Roy Conli

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

— Marjane Satrapi

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue to occur…

— Michael Arndt

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one…

— Peter Jackson

The reality of animation is that it's a complicated thing to get a movie to a studio to make, because they typically have a…

— Rob Minkoff

I've always thought that maybe I need to do a live-action movie, have it make a lot of money, and then come back and…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels…

— Peter Jackson

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

— Lee Unkrich

Live-action films are very much a director's medium, and that director is going to be a very strong voice, a stronger individual voice than…

— Alan Menken