Quotes About Animation

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

I love bringing the inanimate object to life.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

A strong story will carry weak animation, but the most polished animation can't save a weak story.

When Walt became all wrapped up in the theme parks and live-action films, we tried to get him interested in animation again," recalls Frank Thomas, one of the Studio's "Nine Old Men." "Walt said, 'If I ever do go back, there are only two subjects I would want to do. One of them is Beauty and the Beast .' For the life of me, I can't remember what the other one was.

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

All their antics have left them far from tired, though, to judge by the way they are dominating the conversation, with great animation and an unsortable pidgin of academic-use mixed with hipster jargon.

I should hardly call her a lively girl—she is very earnest, very eager in all she does—sometimes talks a great deal and always with animation—but she is not often really merry.

Mary spoke with animation of their meeting with, or rather missing, Mr Elliot so extraordinarily. He is a man, said Lady Russell, whom I have no wish to see. His declining to be on cordial terms with the head of his family, has left a very strong impression in his disfavour with me.

If Mickey Mouse could fly, he'd be Donald Duck.

I love to do animation movies, and those might be some scores that are lesser known, unless you really kind of dig through my work and see.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I'm pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I'm pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.