Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

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

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

I think animation can tell more than live action.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

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.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

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

The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

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.

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.

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.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.