Quotes About Animation

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying." Samuel Goldwyn

Dumbo... makes me cry. Every single time and in the exact same spot. I just have a special affection for Dumbo.

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

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

I dont really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch Adventure Time, The Amazing World of Gumball, and Looney Tunes and old classic cartoons.

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

The problem is that every time people have deviated from the Disney playbook in hand-drawn animation, they've done so with staff that are nowhere near Disney-level talent or Disney-level budgets.

There was a time when cell animation was poison, but after Family Guy now everyone wants it.

On the original tour, Pink Floyd had only 35mm cine-projectors with which to beam an image a maximum of 80ft wide in the middle of the wall. Waters now had twenty-three projectors beaming images across the full width of the 240ft wall, and on to a circular screen behind the stage. It was a visual feast, with Gerald Scarfe's ghoulish animations now brought to life in eye-watering

They move, don't they? Who do you think sets things to moving? Nothing that moves lacks a soul.

Children have no fear of their dolls coming to life, they may even desire it.

I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

an amazing 27-minute animated short called Donald in Mathmagic Land.

Think about it. When was the last time you waltzed into a room buzzing with energy?

There is no god but Road Runner and Chuck Jones is his prophet.

Death is just the shocking end of animation; it is dissolution that is final.

As soon as we take the true view of Parliamentary office we shall perceive that, fairly, frequent change in the official is an advantage, not a mistake. If his function is to bring a representative of outside sense and outside animation in contact with the inside world, he ought often to be changed.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

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

In 'The Smurfs,' I was actually a live action character. So, I was a real person in that movie. But I was working with animated characters, which is very strange because they're off recording their work, and we're kind of reacting to nothing when we're doing the film.

The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.