Animation Quotes

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

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

I want to take themes that are shared throughout the world, express them through animation, and make movies from them.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

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

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

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

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

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

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

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.

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.

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

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

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

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

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

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

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

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

I always liked making things, and then I fell into animation. And then luck comes into it as well.

The process of producing a project is one long string of delight and anxiety, but I think the real thrill of animation would have to be drawing the pictures.

The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

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

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

I was very, very into animation when I was growing up. The Simpsons is still my favorite show. I have a really strong connection to it.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

If I like many photographers, and I do, I account for this by noting a quality they share - animation. They may or may not make a living by photography, but they are alive by it.

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

Ordinary Women was shot on a soundstage with a professional crew and a professional animation studio creating everything.