Quotes About Animation

I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

He cried in Toy Story 3, bawled. It was sweet and I liked him like that.

Animation is not easy and requires a lot of work on detailing which need ample of time.

I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

Comedy requires a lot of energy.

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

We became very good in developing comical sight gags when we made 'The Flintstones.'

From an animation perspective, it doesn't get better than Pixar. You're working so much in the blind because the huge circle of collaborators that's required to pull off a film like this means that you are just one small arc in that large circle. The level of trust that you have to give into is significant.

Saying someone's a fan of animation is as silly as saying someone's a fan of live action. That can mean anything.

I would say that Pixar is doing for animation what Chaplin did for film, infusing it with heart and characters that you care about and stories that you lose yourself in. They are similar revolutionaries and changing a medium.

'Cars' is simply near and dear to my heart.

Don't force the players to animate your creation, breathe life into it from the very start.

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

Initially, it was sort of devastating to lose full animation and go limited.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'

on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Producing an animation series merely to fill time slots in the broadcast schedule is like generating cultural pollution.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures

If I were asked my view, in a nutshell, of what animation is, I would say it is what ever I want to create.