Bryan Konietzko Quotes

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

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

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices to animation films.

All animation is a tremendous amount of work, but when you put 'Star Wars' on the top of something, there's already this bar that people are going to put on it.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

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 think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

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

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

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

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

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

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.