Animation Quotes

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

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

I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.

When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72. Then I didn't do animation until 'Batman.'

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

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

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

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

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

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

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

I was always into cartoons and animation.

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

My brothers were the ones who taught me about mythology and storytelling, and showed me how to do stop-motion animation.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

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

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

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

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

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

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

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

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.