Animation Quotes - Page 18

• In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.

  Walt Disney

  Art, Language, Storytelling

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• Everything on Saturday morning [cartoons] moves alike that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.

  Chuck Jones

  Running, Baby, Morning

  "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones" by Joe Adamson, 1971.

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• Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, Breaths, Suspended

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.29, Anchor

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• The good thing about animation is that you can affect it. If something is not working, then you just fix it.

  Tim Burton

  Good Things, Ifs

  "Tim Burton Talks FRANKENWEENIE, BEETLEJUICE 2, BIG EYES and a PINOCCHIO Film with Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2012.

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• One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

  John Lasseter

  Chance, Produce, Shots

  "Exclusive: John Lasseter, Larry the Cable Guy on the DVD release of Cars 2". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

  Angela Bettis

  Fun, Play, Want

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• I'm skeptical that the novel will be "re­invented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Heart, Thinking

  "The Customer Is Always Right". Interview with Daniel Lyons, www.washingtonpost.com. December 21, 2009.

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• Obviously as a kid, for probably anybody who chose animation voiceover as a career in their adult life, Mel Blanc was the touchstone for everybody. He kind of invented the job and was the first voice actor to get onscreen credit.

  Tom Kenny

  Jobs, Kids, Careers

  "SpongeBob's Tom Kenny talks his favorite voiceover artists". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2013.

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• So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

  Stan Lee

  Artist, Talking, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• Learn how to draw. It's the basis of what we [animation directors] do. Keep a sketchbook. Try making a very simple little film. Try and tell a story clearly and entertainingly. Study the way people move and animate move. Observe all you can, and try and capture that simply in a few lines on paper.

  John Musker

  Moving, Simple, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I love doing animation - mainly because you get to over-act. They're always saying "more," "louder," "bigger," "huger" and you just turn it lose. Plus, doing animation voiceovers, I have learned so much, and it's always good in your career to discover something you didn't know, and to learn to do things differently. So it's a fascinating experience.

  David McCallum

  Careers, Bigger, Plus

  "David McCallum and Marg Helgenberger Take on Zeus and Hera in the Wonder Woman Animated Film". movieweb.com. December 17, 2008.

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• When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

  Brad Bird

  Drawing, Goal, Als

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• America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

  Bill Plympton

  Europe, Ideas, America

  Interview with Bob Marshall, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2010.

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• I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.

  Matt Groening

  Fans, Looks, Favors

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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• In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.

  Signe Baumane

  Talking, Perfect, Acting

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Tigress is my alternate personality, especially with children. I love animation because you get to do things you don't normally get to.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Children, Personality, Tigress

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Religious, Inspire, Religion

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• Animation remove you from a visual reality - if it was live action, you wouldn't be able to see through the person's mind. But animation takes a step away. It creates a very stylized landscape, but at the same time it is the form that is best able to address the reality of being alive and being in pain.

  Signe Baumane

  Pain, Reality, Mind

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• I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

  Signe Baumane

  Taken, Believe, Kids

  "Animating the Unspeakable". Interview with Isabel Ortiz, logger.believermag.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Technology is the friend of traditional animation. It doesn't have to replace it. It can help you do it.

  Tomm Moore

  Technology, Helping, Traditional

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• You're using such different muscles and you rely on physicality in live action, but in animation, you totally throw that out the window. But somehow, they're both as satisfying.

  Reid Scott

  Different, Action, Window

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• In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

  Andy Serkis

  Actors, Fantastic, Scene

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• Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Team, People

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I don't know what I'd do with my life if it wasn't for animation.' I guess I would be an artist, or do something with animals. I have a passion for animals. Maybe I would've become a veternarian.

  Andreas Deja

  Passion, Artist, Animal

  "Exclusive: Andreas Deja Talks the Animation of 101 Dalmatians". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 04, 2008.

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