Dean DeBlois Quotes

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

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• A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Production
  • Lot
  • Animation

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

  

  Tara Strong
  • Time
  • Different
  • Animation

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Movie
  • Like
  • Process

• It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Ambition
  • Been
  • Animation

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

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Die
  • Film
  • Animation

• Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Children
  • Drug
  • Adults

• Throw yourself wholeheartedly into your work; the more you enjoy it, the better you get.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Wholeheartedly

• Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Imagination
  • Problems
  • Imaginations

• You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

  

  David Ansen
  • Why
  • Circles
  • Animation

• Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Imaginations
  • Regions
  • Realms

• The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Commitment
  • Impact
  • Imaginations

• A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Teach

• I love to get involved with projects that take me out of my comfort zone. I try to do things that are not necessarily what I'm used to. I always wanted to do a big animation movie and stick to the codes that this genre sometimes implies.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Movie
  • Comfort
  • Genre

• "Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

  

  Bill Frisell
  • World
  • Music
  • Possible

• I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • World
  • Fun
  • Actors

• I'm always astounded that people know who I am and what I do. I still have a lot of anonymity and that's good. I don't get bothered in restaurants and stuff like that. But when I'm at events that are really geared toward animation fans, they know who I am. And I'm so very pleased and so flattered by it. People are extremely complimentary to me, and that only encourages me to continue to do more really good work. I get paid by the studios, but I know I work for the fans.

  

  Andrea Romano
  • Work
  • Fans
  • Animation

• I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Reason
  • Wanted
  • Animation

• This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Artist
  • Sweet
  • Share

• By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You . . .

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Balance

• In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.

  

  Aaron Dessner The National
  • Work
  • Songs
  • Election

• If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado!

  

  Carlson Gracie
  • Selling
  • Bananas

• 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
  • Animation
  • Imaginations
  • Wholeheartedly