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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
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Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life
Chuck Jones
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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
14.
I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].
Keanu Reeves
15.
For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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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
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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
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I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
Larry Wall
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You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
Don Bluth
22.
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
25.
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
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi
27.
Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
Dave Rowntree
28.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth
29.
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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The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
Tim Burton
31.
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Tim Burton
32.
Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.
Chris Wedge
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A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
Dean DeBlois
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I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie
America Ferrera
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Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.
Shia LaBeouf
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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
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I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.
John Lasseter
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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.
I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.
Jack Kirby
43.
When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.
John Kricfalusi
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I don't like animation. I hate animation, actually.
Eric Idle
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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.
Bill Watterson
46.
I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
Zack Snyder
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I don't necessarily consider myself part of the animation world.
Steve Dildarian
49.
Animation is about timing; movement or lack of movement, often in time with music. These are the tools which make it's visual gags work, or not. Again, comics don't have those tools, so you have to find some sort of parallel to create something that suggests a close approximation of the source material, but without the ability to truly replicate it.
John Rozum
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Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.
Andy Samberg