Animation Quotes

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.

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

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

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

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.

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

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

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

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