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Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
Brad Bird
2.
Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
Chuck Jones
3.
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.
John Cassavetes
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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.
Lee Unkrich
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
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Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
John Lasseter
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Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
Chuck Jones
10.
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.
Takashi Murakami
11.
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
Ralph Bakshi
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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.
Alex Hirsch
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For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.
Genndy Tartakovsky
15.
I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
Keanu Reeves
16.
There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.
Milt Kahl
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John Lasseter
18.
I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.
John Hench
19.
I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.
Brad Bird
20.
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
Larry Wall
21.
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
Don Bluth
22.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
Katherine Dunn
23.
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi
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Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
Dave Rowntree
25.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth
26.
I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
Tara Strong
29.
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Tim Burton
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Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.
Chris Wedge
31.
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
32.
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
Dean DeBlois
33.
I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie
America Ferrera
34.
Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.
Shia LaBeouf
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The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
Tim Burton
36.
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.
Neill Blomkamp
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I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.
Genndy Tartakovsky
38.
I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.
John Lasseter
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Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.
Tomm Moore
40.
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.
Dean DeBlois
42.
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
Anne Lamott
43.
I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.
Steve Dildarian
44.
There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.
Doug Sweetland
45.
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.
David Bolinsky
46.
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.
Lev Yilmaz
47.
Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.
Gore Verbinski
48.
You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Jeff Bezos
49.
I was always into animation, especially.
Arik Roper
50.
I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
Bill Nighy