Animated Quotes

• One of my assistants was on Instagram and showed me how it was working. I thought it was playful, the way you go through images, a little like cinema. It's a bit like a filmstrip that's animated by your finger.

  

  Camille Henrot
  • Cinema
  • Finger
  • Instagram

• The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Free

• I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Exciting

• On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Certain
  • Order
  • Planning

• To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Thinking
  • Animated
  • Audible

• I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

  

  Tracy Spiridakos
  • Comedy
  • Hands
  • Goofy

• The idea right now - and it may evolve - would be a live-action movie where some of his characters would be animated. To me, this movie is very much about the creative process.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Character
  • Creative
  • Evolve

• Very justly and modestly said,” remarked Peterkin, with an approving nod. “’Tis a pity that men are not more generally animated with your spirit, Mak. Most people, when they do wrong or make a mistake, are too apt to try to excuse themselves.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Men
  • Spirit
  • Animated

• Tone is an interesting question because part of the inspiration of looking to song is that Geisel himself - when you think about his animated version of The Grinch - embraced the idea of using songs in unconventional ways, as part of conveying a narrative. The use of music, in this film, is very unconventional, which I love.

  

  Christopher Meledandri
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Interesting

• Yes, the electoral struggle [in U.S.S.R.] will be animated. It will proceed around numerous very sharp questions, namely, practical questions having first-rate significance for the people.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • People
  • Questions
  • Animated

• All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • People
  • Movies
  • Involved

• I wanted draw the cartoon characters, and then it all started to make sense as I was watching these classics come back to the theater like Lady and the Tramp and so forth. If you want to animated the dog, you have to know where the ribcage is and the hip bone and all that.

  

  Andreas Deja
  • Sense
  • Characters
  • Animated

• The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Injustice
  • Inequality
  • Animated

• I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

  

  Carrot Top
  • Hurt
  • Bridges
  • Bugs

• 'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.

  

  Henry Selick
  • Book
  • Action
  • Film

• My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Reading
  • Teaching
  • Poet

• I was huge fan of most of the animated series growing up in the golden era of '90s superhero animation. I didn't care who was producing - it was much more about the specific heroes that I connected with.

  

  Ray Fisher
  • Growing
  • More
  • Connected

• Marylata [ Elton] introduced me to Hans Zimmer. Hans tapped me [to] work on songs for DreamWorks' animated features. I arranged Elton John's opening main title for The Road to El Dorado, I played guitars on Shrek for Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell, I co-produced "I Can See Clearly Now" for Antz.

  

  Danny Jacob
  • Song
  • Opening
  • Dreamworks

• But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

  

  William Cowper
  • Humans
  • Stills
  • Loss

• Revenge is a dish best served cold.

  

  Ricardo Montalban
  • Revenge
  • Culinary
  • Revengeful

• We were very radical on our entrance to the industry. People kind of shunned it, said it’s too much, he’s doing too much. I’m very charismatic. I’m very animated. I dance a lot. I praise God the way I do, and people weren’t really receiving that. They were looking at me - like, this ain’t real. He’s phony. He’s playing, or that’s too much…a little different from the conventional.

  

  Ricky Dillard
  • Real
  • Industry
  • Charismatic

• I was very briefly under contract to Disney Animation, to develop ideas for animated features. They don't like you to use the word "cartoon" around there.

  

  Charles Busch
  • Develop
  • Contract
  • Features

• I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.

  

  David X. Cohen
  • Film
  • Week
  • Term

• I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

  

  David X. Cohen
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Film

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