Animation Quotes
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesnt go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.
Don Bluth
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances dont always come.
Ravi Shankar
When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.
Joe Murray
What I love most about animation is, its a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didnt necessarily have to be working in kids television.
Seth Macfarlane
I have to say that I dont find South Park very funny. Its not the politics. I always saw it as stoner animation and it just left me cold.
Ted Rall
Within the art department of Star Trek I had an illustrator, an animation artist, for computer animation, two graphics artists, two video feed technicians, two set designers, an art director, and a set director and his crew.
Richard D James
I am an animator. I feel like Im the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. Im rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.
Hayao Miyazaki
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.
Gerald Scarfe
Whats most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. Im a great believer of energy and emotion.
Ralph Bakshi
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. Its hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
Matt Groening
One of the best animated films Ive seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasnt crazy about the story or the design on Tarzans face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
Ralph Bakshi
When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.
Bill Griffith
We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then its all post-production animation after that.
Steve Burns
