Animation Quotes - Page 8

• I'm a bit of a weird creature... I'm self taught and went to a regular film school, not art school, and I think it's unusual for somebody to approach animation from that angle. In a sense I've sometimes consclassered myself more of a filmmaker who just happens to animate.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Art, School, Thinking

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• A lot of the issues I faced in junior high was what got me into animation. It was easier to sit on the side and draw cartoons than to engage with people.

  Pete Docter

  Issues, People, Cartoon

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Traditionally, animation has been dominated by men in the past. I don't know why it attracted guys.

  Pete Docter

  Past, Men, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• With animation, if something does not fit, you always have the time to change it. When you make a live-action movie, when your days of shooting are over, they are over forever.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Forever, Doe, Shooting

  "Marjane Satrapi: Superman is Boring, Batman is Hot, Dictators Are Clueless". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. August 13, 2012.

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• Yeah, once we decided to use that replacement animation, and the seams are a function of that animation, and other movies paint those out, we decided we wanted to keep the presence of the animation and the type of animation that it was rather than make it look polished. It created a kind of vulnerability, I think.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Thinking, Looks, Use

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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• As well as Japanese animation, technology has a huge influence on Japanese society, and also Japanese novels. It's because before, people tended to think that ideology or religion were the things that actually changed people, but it's been proven that that's not the case. Technology has been proven to be the thing that's actually changing people. So in that sense, it's become a theme in Japanese culture.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Japanese animation tends to need high budgets. If I have a high budget for a movie, I usually make animation, but if the project has a low budget, then I would ask the producer to consider live action.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Needs, Action, Projects

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

  Michael B. Jordan

  Hands, Different, Television

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'

  Rachael MacFarlane

  Morning, Hands, Cartoon

  "Comic-Con: AMERICAN DAD’s Rachael MacFarlane Talks Up the New Season; Reveals Her Musical Aspirations". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Toonami was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it.

  Steven Blum

  Gratitude, Art, Fans

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• The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.

  Raul Garcia

  Country, People, Hollywood

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Art, Expression, Defense

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Even if you have money, access to MoCap technology, and strong choreographic and computer-animation abilities, don't try to make a film like this if you don't have a lot of patience, perseverance and a deep affinity for risk-taking.

  Martine Epoque

  Perseverance, Strong, Technology

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.

  Signe Baumane

  Artist, Years, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do have more directorial control over animation, because it's like trial and error: If something doesn't work, you can always go back and change certain things. Whereas in live action, every day is a challenge, and you have to make decisions on an hourly basis. So in live action I have more freedom as a director, but in animation, I have more control over the final product.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Errors, Decision, Challenges

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others.

  Marv Wolfman

  Running, Mean, Writing

  Source: www.grouchoreviews.com

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• I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fun, Real, Drawing

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.

  Tomm Moore

  Character, Simple, Thinking

  "Handcrafting Magic: Dir. Tomm Moore on His Blissfully Beautiful Film ‘Song of the Sea’". Interview with Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2014.

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• I think the idea of a traditional story being told using traditional animation is likely a thing of the past.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Past, Thinking, Ideas

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• One of my favorite things about animation is that the boundaries are as limitless as our imaginations. If we can dream it, we can make it. And if we do it well, audiences will believe it wholeheartedly.

  Dean DeBlois

  Dream, Believe, Imagination

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• The album [Blaxistential crisis] artwork is by a friend of mine who is a brilliant artist named Sara Pocock. We've been friends for a couple of years and she worked with me on the animation. I believe she's still working over at BuzzFeed.

  Baron Vaughn

  Couple, Believe, Artist

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm really comfortable doing voice-overs, but it's really fun to do animation.

  Amy Hill

  Fun, Voice, Comfortable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I lived in San Francisco for about eight years and I did a lot of improvisation there. The improvisational world ruled the voice world in San Francisco, so I became a voice talent there and did a lot of commercials and worked all the time. But I never could break into animation.

  Amy Hill

  Eight, Years, Voice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love sight gags and broad stuff, but you can get to such a subtle degree, especially with CG animation.

  Peter Sohn

  Sight, Degrees, Stuff

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Toward the end of the film ['Life, Animated'] we see 'The Sidekicks Story,' and that is a story that Owen drew himself. We took that style, which is decidedly different from Disney animation, and used it as a basis. It's a 'two-dimensional' hand drawn animated form, so I went to this company in Paris called 'Mac Guff,' and they assembled an amazing group of young animators, and brought it to life.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Hands, Disney Animation, Two

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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