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Animation Quotes

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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

Authors on Animation Quotes: John Lasseter Ralph Bakshi Steve Dildarian Bill Watterson Gore Verbinski Brad Bird Dean DeBlois Genndy Tartakovsky Chuck Jones Don Bluth John Kricfalusi Tim Burton Kate Beaton Takashi Murakami Doug Sweetland Norman McLaren Shia LaBeouf Amy Hill Eric Idle Keanu Reeves Tomm Moore Bill Nighy Michael Sheen Jack Kirby Tara Strong Dave Rowntree Jonah Hill Lev Yilmaz Zack Snyder Andy Samberg David Ansen Lee Unkrich Toni Braxton
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

4.
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

5.
Animation is a technique, not a genre.
Gore Verbinski

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

7.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
John Lasseter

8.
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
Chuck Jones

9.
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

10.
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
Steven Spielberg

11.
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
Ralph Bakshi

12.
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

13.
I love great animation.
Ron Perlman

14.
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

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

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

18.
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

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

23.
I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen

24.
I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
Tara Strong

25.
Animation is manipulating the difference.
Norman McLaren

26.
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

27.
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi

28.
Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
Dave Rowntree

29.
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
Dean DeBlois

30.
I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie
America Ferrera

31.
Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.
Shia LaBeouf

32.
The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
Tim Burton

33.
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

34.
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Tim Burton

35.
Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.
Chris Wedge

36.
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson

37.
Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.
Tomm Moore

38.
I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.
Genndy Tartakovsky

39.
I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.
John Lasseter

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

41.
When in doubt, resort to animation.
Michael Palin

42.
I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.
Toni Braxton

43.
Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am.".
Kate Beaton

44.
I don't even know how computer animation works, honestly, and I don't need to.
Dan Scanlon

45.
Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do well, but usually those things don't overlap: the same with comics and animation.
Bill Watterson

46.
We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.
Victor Navone

47.
I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.
Mario Cantone

48.
I've always loved animation and animated films.
Michael Sheen

49.
Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.
Cheech Marin

50.
Luckily with animation, they give you a lot more leeway than a live-action show.
Jonah Hill