Animation Quotes

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

I love great animation.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

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

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

When I was in my early 20s, I was quite into Japanese animation. It's like the same thing that I end up always saying which is, imagery based stuff is the thing that really gets me.

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

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.

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.

When in doubt, resort to animation.

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.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

I was always into animation, especially.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.

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

If I really feel that I want to shoot live people and live backgrounds, then that movie will become live-action. If I don't have any particular actors I want to use, I'd probably consider animation for that project. Which medium I use doesn't really make that much difference to me.

I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

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