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

• Animation
• Imaginations
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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

• My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

  

  Sergio Aragones
  • Different
  • Looks
  • Drawing

• 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

• What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to be able to create my own book to already know how I'd want to develop it for animation and live action.

  

  Eric Wight
  • Books
  • Animation
  • Entertainment Industry

• We’re pretty much constantly on tour right now, and we’ve adapted most of the songs to sound different than they do on record. That keeps us going and engaged, to be changing these songs and sounds, making the live show bigger and washier.

  

  Peter Silberman The Antlers
  • Songs
  • Show
  • Changing

• I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Enough
  • Tree

• Ironically, although the Y-chromosome has become synonymous with male aggression, it is intrinsically unstable. Adam is as much cursed as cursing.

  

  Bryan Sykes
  • Adam
  • Y-chromosome
  • Male aggression

• While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Believe
  • Hands
  • Artists

• 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