Animation Quotes

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

Motion-capture is not a genre. Motion-capture is a tool and technique and what we tried to do was to really use both motion-capture and traditional animation to build a system.

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

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 how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

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

On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.

I am trying my best to stay above the water. Right now ACID does not only offer animation. I offer real life productions as well and also compositing (animation composited into real life video)

I think that there is always room for improvement so I am seeking to reach as far as I can in my field of art, film and animation.

I always loved cartoons but the process seemed so difficult. Then I told myself, "Nothing good comes easy." So, I took a plunge and started my first animation stint in 2003.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

If I was ever to ask advice, it could be from any actor or showrunner or writer. I wouldn't necessarily ask an animate. I don't want to say that the wrong way, but animation's not really my world.

I don't necessarily consider myself part of the animation world.

I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.

The nature of the writing and the nature of the animation meant that it had to be short.

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions.

We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.

In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

Having a purpose is one thing, but the quickening is a total animation of passion.

Don’t let the daily routine kill your creativity. Remember who you were before you got that job.

You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.

When Walt became all wrapped up in the theme parks and live-action films, we tried to get him interested in animation again, " recalls Frank Thomas, one of the Studio's "Nine Old

Three wishes, to be exact. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes.

I don’t need a medal to tell me I’m a good guy.

All my life flashed before my eyes.… It was really boring.

To infinity…and beyond!

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.

While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it’s the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.

Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old.

Your mind, your motion and your expression is an animation to marvel and to praise.

'How To Train your Dragon 2' is an amazing film. I think it's an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic.