Animated Quotes

• If you look at a lot of animated movies, they don't pay attention to how things move through space.

  Brad Bird

  Moving, Space, Looks

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. March 9, 2005.

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• If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

  John Lasseter

  Children, Sitting, Stories

  "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

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• Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  Walt Disney

  Character, Depth, World

  "How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

  Walt Disney

  Cartoon, Puppets, Littles

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• That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Puppets, Actresses, Normal

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• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  Kate Fox

  Gossip, Tone, Sound

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• Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

  Will Friedle

  Writing, Years, Lasts

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• I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.

  Blair Underwood

  Children, Kids, Details

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• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  Franklin Pierce

  Patriotic, Presidential, Political

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• 'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

  Jonah Hill

  Real, Years, Ideas

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• One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies.

  Mike Judge

  Kids, Heard, One Thing

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• Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Dragons, Film

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• Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Life, Happiness, Passion

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• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.

  Peter O'Toole

  Food, Artist, Ego

  "Fictional character: Anton Ego". "Ratatouille", www.imdb.com. June 22, 2007.

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• The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Character, Ideas, Progress

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.4

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• What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

  Bill Griffith

  Team, People, Over You

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• If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

  Don Bluth

  Character, Funny Things, Games

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• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Crazy, Design, Stories

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• I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.

  Geena Davis

  Workout, Fun, Character

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• I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.

  Jeremy Bulloch

  Character, Animal, Animated Series

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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  Illeana Douglas

  Writing, Character, Want

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• The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.

  Don Bluth

  Teamwork, Heart, Artist

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• Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

  Leonard Maltin

  Firsts, Best Picture, Beast

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• Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

  Brad Bird

  Thought Provoking, Levels, Looks

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