Animation Quotes

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

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.

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

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

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

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

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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

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

I love great animation.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

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

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

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

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.