Don Bluth Quotes

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

What I can't tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can't tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell whatever the story changes, but you're still all telling stories.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

If I had not been successful as a director, then I'm sure I would still be telling stories. I would have continued on 16mm or found a different medium through which to tell them.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

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 believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.

I love great animation.

The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.

Visual effects have always been a part of this art form. And CG is simply a tool on the filmmaker's tool belt to tell a story, but when the end result is bad - maybe it's not the tool's fault.

Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

When we made 'Toy Story,' we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

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

Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun!

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

Comics are just another medium to express yourself. It's not cinema; it's not literature; it's just something else. It has a specific requirement, which is that images are used to tell the story. There are lots of crappy movies, with guns and action and Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.