Dan Scanlon Quotes

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

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'

I've always loved animation and animated films.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

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.

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

'Alice' took over two years to make and took a great deal of planning, obviously much more than usual. We spent so much more time prepping the film, and that was unique for us.

Pixar's short films convinced Disney that if the company could produce memorable characters within five minutes, then the confidence was there in creating a feature film with those abilities in story and character development.

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

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

I like to direct for the big screen.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

I love great animation.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

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

My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.

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

I ran development and programming at Disney TV animation. We did a lot of cartoons.

I fancy cartoons; don't even get me started on 'Aladdin.'

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.