Animation Quotes

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

You can tell a story clearly in the storyboards, but if you don't keep the correct focus in the animation, it can be ruined.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film].

I love great animation.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

There’s nothing harder to do in animation than nothing. Movement is our medium.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

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.

Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.