Damon Wayans Jr. Quotes

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

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

My first artistic love was drawing and painting.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.

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.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

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

I was a film major with a concentration in animation.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.

I'm a trained fine artist. I went to art school from the time I was 5 years old. I was, like, a prodigy out of Chicago. I'd been in national competitions from the age of 14.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

I would say that what we called the Pixar sensibility goes back even further. It is kind of a CalArts sensibility because so many of the people who are creative instrumental people at Pixar came from that school.

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

I got really into art at school and then went onto art college in California.

I got out of this school and went to Camberwell College of Arts, a terribly prestigious thing to do. I was there to be a painter. And I sketched so well that, a year later, I was sent to Slade School of Fine Art, one of the great art schools.

Me wanting to be an artist never really faded away. I knew that no matter what else I tried to pursue, my passion was always that.

I'm an artist. I've been doing storyboards for a long, long time.