Lisa Frank Quotes

Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.

You see it in the stuff I've done at Laika: I've always tried to make movies that have an artful blend of darkness and light, intensity and warmth. That have a thinking brain and a strong beating heart at the centre of it.

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.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

Theatre taught me to convert a scene into a vision.

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

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

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

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.

Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.

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

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

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

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.

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

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.

The good thing about being an actor, and the gift of being an actor, is that you are beautifully forced to see the world with different eyes.

On a live-action movie, things happen that are unexpected. In animation, you have to fabricate the feeling. That takes a tremendous amount of nuance until the film becomes sentient and gives back.