Quotes About Animation

I used to take my little Disney figurines and turn them into stop-motion animation.

While talking to Wardha, I realized that Disney is actually the surname of the man behind the studio, but one only identifies it with animation. Now I have a new dream. If I can achieve the same level of legend with the Nadiadwala name, that would be awesome.

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

I know a lot of games have been going to the facial capture. And movies like 'TinTin' are using it, as well.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

We had so many firsts on 'Coraline' that I couldn't quite see where we'd go from there, but for 'ParaNorman' we developed this 'skewed naturalism' that marries a lot of intricate detail with a more cinematic approach, then just built on all that and pushed those techniques even further, so we can tell our stories that much more effectively.

I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

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.'

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers.

Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it.

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

People did not always realize how observant he was. "His eyes retire inward . . . and have nothing of fire or animation or openness in their expression," said Edward Thornton, a young British diplomat, who added that Washington "possesses the two great requisites of a statesman, the faculty of concealing his own sentiments, and of discovering those of other men.

What we call life is really a form of water, activated and animated not by a divine principle but the energetic cosmos around it.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

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

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Perhaps you don't see yourself in animation," he said with a smile. "It's true your features are quite ordinary, but they become lively when you talk and you have what are called 'speaking eyes.' They shine with the light of your quick mind.