Animation Quotes

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

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

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

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

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

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

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.