Saul Bass Quotes

The very first pieces of film that I did were really graphic designs translated to film. Graphic designs that moved. That was a very new notion.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

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

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

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

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

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

In the earliest days of Pixar, when we were making 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life,' we all came together as a group.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

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

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I do a lot of CG stuff for fun.

I was involved in a web cartoon of Kung Fu with WB a few years back.

Animation is a great way to work. No early morning call times, no make-up chair. In live action, you're always fighting the clock; the sun is always going down too soon.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

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