Animation Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Animal, Disney Animation

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• My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

  Smedley Butler

  Peace, Military, War

  "War Is A Racket". Smedley Butler's speech in the U.S. (1933); later published as a book "War Is a Racket", www.businessinsider.com. 1935.

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• My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.

  Sergio Aragones

  Drawing, Unorthodox, Different

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• Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

  John Lasseter

  Waiting, Tape, Saws

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• Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

  James Coburn

  Two, Voice, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work.

  Kevin Conroy

  Opportunity, Voice, Quality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

  Theodore Bikel

  Movement, States, Caught

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• Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

  Annette Funicello

  Children, Television, Form

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• And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Goodbye, Children, Wall

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• I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Action, Scene, Stage

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• We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

  Steve Burns

  Thinking, Different, Done

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• I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

  Stephen Fry

  Book, Generations, Eccentric

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• I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Anime, Done, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fun, Anime, Want

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Input, Faces, Blind

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

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• When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

  Don Bluth

  Decision, Artistic, Executives

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.

  Walt Disney

  Mean, Disney Animation, Organization

  "A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers". Book by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, 2002.

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• Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

  Craig McCracken

  Mean, Differences, People

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 02, 2002.

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• But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

  Dave Rowntree

  Years, Lasts, Fitting

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. April 17, 2006.

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• Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation.

  John Cassavetes

  Acting, Mount Rushmore

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

  Ralph Bakshi

  Looks, Done, Units

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Country, Children, America

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• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

  Matt Groening

  Firsts, Foxes, Tvs

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