Elijah Kelley Quotes

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

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

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.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

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

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

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

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood's most successful and innovative genre.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

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.

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

I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.

I'm great at telling stories with the kids. I do all my different accents. We make our own stories up all the time, the four of us, me and Hannah and the kids.

I think it is important for kids to be kids.