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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 Chuck Jones Genndy Tartakovsky Don Bluth John Kricfalusi Tim Burton Bill Watterson Gore Verbinski Brad Bird Dean DeBlois Mario Cantone Steven Spielberg Alex Hirsch Jeff Bezos Ray Harryhausen Mamoru Oshii Andrea Romano Dan Scanlon Nonito Donaire Ron Perlman America Ferrera Michael Palin Nicholas Stoller Chris Wedge Doug Sweetland Kate Beaton Takashi Murakami Eric Idle Norman McLaren Shia LaBeouf Amy Hill
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.
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
Steven Spielberg

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

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

16.
There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.
Milt Kahl

17.
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.
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
Ralph Bakshi

23.
Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.
Dave Rowntree

24.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Don Bluth

25.
I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen

26.
I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
Tara Strong

27.
Animation is manipulating the difference.
Norman McLaren

28.
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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Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.
Chris Wedge

30.
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
Jennifer Yuh Nelson

31.
I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie
America Ferrera

32.
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
Dean DeBlois

33.
Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan.
Shia LaBeouf

34.
The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.
Tim Burton

35.
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

36.
I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.
Tim Burton

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.
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

43.
I was always into animation, especially.
Arik Roper

44.
Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.
Gore Verbinski

45.
You're not going to make Hemingway better by adding animations.
Jeff Bezos

46.
I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
Bill Nighy

47.
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.
Mamoru Oshii

48.
I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.
Al Yankovic

49.
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.
Andrea Romano

50.
I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.
Toni Braxton