Animation Quotes

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. (Walt Disney)
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. View quote
Walt Disney
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen. View quote
John Updike
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. View quote
Richard Burton
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. View quote
Susan Sontag
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement. View quote
Gerald Scarfe
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw. View quote
Craig McCracken
You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way. View quote
Don Bluth
Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things. (Terry Gilliam)
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. View quote
Brad Bird
Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike-that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same. View quote
Chuck Jones
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. View quote
Ralph Bakshi
There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. View quote
Matt Groening
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. View quote
Matt Groening
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time. View quote
Matt Groening
Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s. View quote
Annette Funicello
Animation has completely changed and I've always been a big fan. (Shia LaBeouf)
Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two. View quote
Dave Morris
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush. View quote
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea. View quote
Christopher Meledandri
My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie. View quote
Christopher Meledandri