Animation Quotes

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

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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.

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.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

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.

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

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

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.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

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

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

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.

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

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

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.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

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.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.