Animator Quote by Chuck Jones

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

— Bernard Malamud

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker

— Don Meyer

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

— Marc Davis

“What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the…

— Ray Bradbury

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

— John Lasseter

I was always quick, I used my speed and my technique.

— Miguel Almiron

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

— Craig Newmark

Sight gags had to be planned; they required timing and mechanics. Occasionally, spontaneity would arise in the shooting of the scenes.

— Stan Laurel

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as…

— Charles Warren Stoddard

“Rather than having to draw every single frame by hand—which can be likened here to modeling every tiny step in the evolutionary process—artists nowadays…

— Dan Brown

“I think it was surprising that we were the first group of animators, as far as I can recall, to have the opportunity to…

— Prestel Publishing

In animation, you do so much planning ahead of time; it has to be so precise.

— Phil Lord