Animation Quotes
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.
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Animation is manipulating the difference.
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You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.
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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.
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
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It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.
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Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.
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The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.
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I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
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Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.
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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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If hand-drawn animation is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
