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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You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.
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Animation is manipulating the difference.
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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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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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The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
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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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It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.
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This dim coolness of my room was to the broad daylight of the street what the shadow is to the sunbeam, that is to say equally luminous, and presented to my imagination the entire panorama of summer, which my senses, if I had been out walking, could have tasted and enjoyed only piecemeal; and so it was quite in harmony with my state of repose which (thanks to the enlivening adventures related in my books) sustained, like a hand reposing motionless in a stream of running water, the shock and animation of a torrent of activity.
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Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.
