Animation Quotes

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

Life, Friendship, True

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney

Mind, Whatever, Makes

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney

Story, Bring, Pleasure

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

Job, Different, Difficult

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
Steven Spielberg

Friend, Fantasy, Luckily

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.
Shia LaBeouf

Big, Changed, Fan

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
Norman McLaren

Art, Move, Movements

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

Everyone, While, Military

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

Depression, Melancholy, Charms

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

Great, Important, Energy

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

Time, State, Exist

I've always loved animation and animated films.
Michael Sheen

Loved, Films, Animated

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen

Times, Stories, Brought

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

Great, Bad, Children

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.
Christopher Nolan

Powerful, Between, Making

I love great animation.
Ron Perlman

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.
Nicki Minaj

Morning, Fun, Person

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

Time, Nothing, Hard

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
Matt Groening

Good, Writing, Often

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

Children, Become, Until

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

Team, Magic, Terrific

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.
Bill Nighy

Great, Play, Used

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.
Bill Nighy

Everything, Find, Process

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

Business, Understand, Decisions

I love all the old classic Disney movies. 'Pinocchio.' There are obviously tons of them that anybody growing up on that stuff takes with them their whole lives, and I'm an admirer of a lot of classic animation and fairy tales. I grew up on a book of Grimm's fairy tales that I kind of wore out again and again. That's all stuff that lingers with you.
Gary Ross

Love, Movies, Book

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.
Ralph Bakshi

Live, Give, Hell

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

Won, Recording, Otherwise

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

Time, Different, Projects

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Chuck Jones

Mind, Key, Directing

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
John Lasseter

Play, Challenge, Kids

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