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.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don't think of whoever the 200 writers are.

I've loved all forms of animation.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

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.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the 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.