Quotes on Animation

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

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

Author: Ralph Bakshi

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

Author: Don Bluth

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Author: Don Bluth

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

Author: Kenneth Branagh

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.

Author: Smedley Butler

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Author: Marc Davis

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

Author: Marc Davis

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

Author: Katherine Dunn

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

Author: Annette Funicello

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Author: Matt Groening

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

Author: Ray Harryhausen

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.

Author: Ray Harryhausen

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

Author: Chuck Jones

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Author: John Lasseter

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Author: John Lasseter

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

Author: John Lithgow

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Author: Dave Rowntree

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Author: Dave Rowntree

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Author: Gerald Scarfe

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Author: Alfred Sisley

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

Author: Susan Sontag

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

Author: Douglas Wood

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

Author: Douglas Wood