Bryan Konietzko Quotes

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

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

I'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

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

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

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

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.

I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.