Animation Quote by Edwin Catmull Download Open image “Are the Simpsons cool? They are, and that is crude 2D animation.” — Edwin Catmull ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animation Cool Crude Simpsons
Anybody in animation today would be lying if they said they weren't somehow influenced by 'The Simpsons' to a certain degree. Except for the… — Justin Roiland Copy Share Image
'The Simpsons' basically - and 'Futurama' - are really smart shows. They're kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than… — Dan Castellaneta Copy Share Image
I'm a lifelong Simpsons fanatic and I wanted to create my own animated show, one day. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I think the No. 1 lesson I learned from 'The Simpsons' was just that animation could be as funny as live-action. That animation could… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what 'The Simpsons' is really good at. They'll describe something, you don't see it, and it's funnier when you describe it. — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Creative ideas aren't like Jenga blocks, where they fall apart and you've got to start from scratch, though it can feel that way. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
With every one of our films, we try to touch emotions, but we don't try to touch the same emotions each time. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking,… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
At heart, we believe that the films that work well are the films that do touch people emotionally. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from. — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
We'll fund a project even if I'm skeptical because I'd rather be proven wrong by somebody on the inside than by somebody on the… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
With certain ideas, you can predict commercial success. So with a 'Toy Story 3' or a 'Cars 2,' you know the idea is more… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
If I'm doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I'm doing three different voices, you've gotta separate them. You've gotta find the… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
What's unique about Disney Animation, many of the films have this perennial quality about them. They don't seem like old films, they still seem… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
I was always tinkering around with stuff but nothing serious at the time. I was doing animations and drawing like crazy, but I wasn't… — Chad VanGaalen Copy Share Image
In feature animation, cartoony or exaggerated animation is almost taboo. There is this precedent that if you do that kind of stuff people won't… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made 'Spirited Away' and 'Castle in the Sky.'… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out… — Raul Garcia Copy Share Image
If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology. — Chris Wedge Copy Share Image
In a movie, it's often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be 'read' by humans. And in the days before… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
