Animation Quotes - Page 2

• I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Trying, Action

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Trying, World

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Animation is manipulating the difference.

  Norman McLaren

  Differences

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

  Alfred Sisley

  Painting, Canvas, Problem

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

  John Hench

  Two, Dry, Miniatures

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

  Gerald Scarfe

  Drawing, Movement, Kind

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• Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

  Leonard Maltin

  Technology, Polar Express, Film

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

  Susan Sontag

  Depression, Fit, Melancholy

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Kids, Doors, Television

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• Every medium has its own projection, and I find animation is much bigger than normal.

  Cheech Marin

  Normal, Bigger, Mediums

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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

  John Lithgow

  Discovery, Film, Moments

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• What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Sports, Team, Squash

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Missing, Film, Dies

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Team, Boss, Cinema

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

  John Lasseter

  Desire, Action, Whole Life

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

  Kenneth Branagh

  Team, Play, Magic

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• Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.

  John Lasseter

  Movie, Mother, Baby

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• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Talking, Giving, Jazz

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

  Tara Strong

  Different, Projects

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Matt Groening

  Writing, Thinking, Cartoon

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

  Ray Harryhausen

  Stories

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

  Don Bluth

  Able, Way, Studios

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

  Ralph Bakshi

  Ukulele, Adults, Today

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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

  Katherine Dunn

  Book, Thinking, Very Good

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• We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

  Tina Weymouth

  Change, Real, Light

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