Animation Quotes

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Animation requires a great deal of concentration, and I preferred to work alone because then I'm not deterred by somebody asking me if I want coffee, or the phone ringing or something.

Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.

Whether it's a street poster on a brick wall, a magazine cover on a newsstand, or animation on a movie screen - art is an effective means of communicating with large numbers of people.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

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 salary, so I didn't.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

When in doubt, resort to animation.

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program that's doing all the animation.

In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.

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

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens.

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

The film [Boy and the World]gave me the possibility to create a new language. Animation is a very rich medium but hasn't fully been exploited by artists. Often artists are trapped by words.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I was always into animation, especially.

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Even in hand drawn animation, humans are widely considered to be the most difficult to execute, because everybody has a feeling for how they move.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.

The scary thing is that sometimes you are wrapping up animation on a sequence and you don't know how the movie ends or begins. You just have to bluff and move forward.

I have a very low tolerance for animation. I'm used to the perfect integrity you get from drawing your own comics. There's something about that that animation always loses.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.