Quotes About Animation

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

As a mother, I've seen a lot of animated movies, and, I've got to say, there's so much crap out there for children.

I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.

I think that 'Family Guy' and 'The Critic' come from some of the same kind of seed. I don't know what it is.

My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

In feature animation, cartoony or exaggerated animation is almost taboo. There is this precedent that if you do that kind of stuff people won't like it or it will be too zany.

In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

That's the beauty of the animation process: It takes so long, you have so many chances to improve it.

My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.

I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.

'Zootopia' features such a large and diverse range of characters - one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.

Cartoon Hangover has given us another place we felt we could find the most talented people around the world and give them a chance to make the films they want to make and match it up with their audience.

I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation. Those animation talents are hysterical. They're so good, and they're so amazingly quick on their feet.

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

I really loved that old UPA stuff, like 'Gerald McBoing-Boing' and 'Mr. Magoo.' They were simple yet effective 'toons that talked to everyone, not just kids.

Of my Disney material, 'Tangled' is my most pop-oriented.

I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.