Quotes About Animation

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

When I was a kid, Disney was one of my gods. I just loved movies like 'Snow White' and 'Pinocchio.'

I remember seeing re-releases of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' and 'Bambi' in the theater very young. They had huge impacts on me, particularly the dark aspects.

THE UNCANNY VALLEY

I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

I animated everything traditionally, on paper. I love how the texture of paper looks (it also matches textures of papier-mâché) and I love the tactile process.

I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

I love Saturday morning cartoons. What do you like to do on a Saturday morning?

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.

I was working in cartoons. I could go to Comic-Con, buy the Hal Jordan ring, I could buy animation cels, but at the end of the day, I come back to an empty apartment. I had a life that was only around me, and when I was broken, my world was broken.

In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.

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

Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

Cartoons make kids happy, and that's a great feeling.

I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

Hopefully, 'Inside Out' will have the longevity that those older movies have, and many years down the line, people will be able to watch it and find some kinship with it.

I liked the first 'Kung Fu Panda.'

We wanted the elemental 'bending' to be based on authentic Chinese traditional martial arts, believing this would lend a beauty and resonance to the animation and the fictitious disciplines. Once we had that idea, I started looking for a Kung Fu teacher/Martial Arts consultant. My search led me to Sifu Kisu and I began training with him right away.

film is and has always been just a subset of animation—in contrast to how critics presented the relation—if animation is understood to be the inputting of life, or the inputting of the illusion of life, into that which is flat or inert or a model or an image.