Animator Quotes

• 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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• An animator is an actor with a pencil.

  Chuck Jones

  Actors, Pencils

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• Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

  Chuck Jones

  Men, Ideas, Wells

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

  John Lasseter

  Character, Drawing, Actors

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• Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Memories

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• Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Live Life, Second Chance, Long

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• I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there

  Jason Marsden

  Art, Form, Wanted

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• Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

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• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  Ralph Bakshi

  Looks, Done, Animation

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

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• All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

  Dean DeBlois

  Tools, Animation

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• I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Mistake, Years, Careers

  "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

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• Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Pain, Emotion, Shock

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• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Running, Ghouls, Guy

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• Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

  Terry Gilliam

  Well Known, Wells, Known

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. November 15, 2000.

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• Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

  Wes Anderson

  Pain, Actors, Process

  "Fantastic Mr Fox - Wes Anderson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think all directors should be animators.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Directors, Should

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• Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

  Walt Disney

  Years, Ideas, Today

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Love You, Heart

  "Fictional character: Cinderella". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Emotional, Creating

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Character, Way, Etc

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons". Season 4, Episode 1: "Kamp Krusty", www.imdb.com. September 24, 1992.

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• nothing is impossible

  Walt Disney

  Happiness, Inspiring, Moving On

  Walt Disney (1988). “The jungle book”, p.17, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

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• Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Drawing, Kind

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• I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

  Wayne White

  Artist, Careers, Ems

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