Quotes About Animation

The worst thing you can do is animate something, and then throw it out because it doesn't work, story wise.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

I've worked in animation for a long time. I started in Spain and I wanted to make feature films. That desire to figure out how to make animated features brought me to the U.S. to work for Disney.

I am an ocean lover and fish watcher and had studied marine biology and even taught marine sciences before I got into animation.

When I was at N.Y.U., I studied abroad in Prague, and I learned about some of the European animators, like Jan Svankmajer and Jiri Barta. I didn't think at the time that I would end up doing anything like that, but I certainly thought it was very cool.

I studied marine biology, even taught marine science before I got into animation, so I had an interest in that field and those animals.

If I wasn't acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics.

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

The identity of Studio Ghibli movies are how the characters move. They move like live, real people.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

Besides kind of like the Wes Anderson, or, of course, a lot of the European movies, most everybody in the States, the big studios, make pretty much the same film. And we're kind of held to Pixar standards, or Disney standards, as it's kind of always been in the animation industry.

Growing up, my favorite movie was 'The Lion King.' I used to watch it every day and create these extravagant stories with my Barbies and stuffed animals. My dad says I would say the entire movie out loud, and it's still the one VHS that I have.

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

It was kind of fun to make 'Cloudy,' which has such a stylized look, and then do 'LEGO,' which, while it's stylized, is also photo-real.

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.