Animation Quotes - Page 18

• Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of it, nor in the thoughts and stirrings of the brain of it;--but in the dedication of them all to Him who will raise them up at the last day.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Dedication, Humanity

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.41

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• After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Night, Causes, Generations

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.41

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• I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

  Angela Bettis

  Fun, Play, Want

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• I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

  Bill Plympton

  Thinking, Imagination, People

  Interview with Bob Marshall, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.

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• America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

  Bill Plympton

  Europe, Ideas, America

  Interview with Bob Marshall, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I love doing animation - mainly because you get to over-act. They're always saying "more," "louder," "bigger," "huger" and you just turn it lose. Plus, doing animation voiceovers, I have learned so much, and it's always good in your career to discover something you didn't know, and to learn to do things differently. So it's a fascinating experience.

  David McCallum

  Careers, Bigger, Plus

  "David McCallum and Marg Helgenberger Take on Zeus and Hera in the Wonder Woman Animated Film". movieweb.com. December 17, 2008.

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• Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.

  John Musker

  Moving, Simple, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, Talking, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.

  Tom Kenny

  Jobs, Kids, Careers

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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

  Keanu Reeves

  Digital, Film

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

  "The Customer Is Always Right". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

  James Boswell

  Hero, Character, Air

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I'd had a belly-full of being subservient. I had to find something else to do, and I did. I went to the animation houses. I went to new fields.

  Jack Kirby

  House, Fields, Belly

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cutting, Cartoon, Salary

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• I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian.

  Andreas Deja

  Passion, Artist, Animal

  "Exclusive: Andreas Deja Talks the Animation of 101 Dalmatians". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 04, 2008.

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• Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Children, Personality, Tigress

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Religious, Inspire, Religion

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• Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's mind. But animation takes a step away. It creates a very stylized landscape, but at the same time it is the form that is best able to address the reality of being alive and being in pain.

  Signe Baumane

  Pain, Reality, Mind

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• In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

  Signe Baumane

  Talking, Perfect, Acting

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

  Signe Baumane

  Taken, Believe, Kids

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.

  Tomm Moore

  Technology, Helping, Traditional

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

  Reid Scott

  Different, Action, Window

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• In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

  Andy Serkis

  Actors, Fantastic, Scene

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• Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Team, People

  Source: www.tcj.com

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