Isabella Rossellini Quotes

Historically, there's been a degree of sameness to animated films.

People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.

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

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

I'm a big fan of cel animation, I'm a big fan of computer animation, and, most of all, I'm a big fan of stop-motion animation.

I don't know if animation is a style. It's a format.

There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

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

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

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.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

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 love great animation.

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

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

I've loved all forms of animation.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

In some ways, 'The Little Mermaid' was old-fashioned. Rendered in the hand-drawn style, it was the last Disney animated feature to use cels and Xeroxing. Pixar and its CGI imitators soon made that rigorous process obsolete.

There's nothing like watching hand-drawn animation on the big screen.