Animation Quotes

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

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.

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.

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.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

I guess the biggest challenge to doing any kind of animation voice work is that you only have your voice to tell the story.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

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.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.

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.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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.

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.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

I love great animation.

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.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

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.

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.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.