H. Jon Benjamin Quotes

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

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

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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.'

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've always loved animation and animated films.

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.

I love great animation.

Gravity Falls' is a very hard show to produce.

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

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

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.

I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

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.

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

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.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

I've loved all forms of animation.

Animation is very similar to sketch comedy: you have a short amount of time to do something big and ridiculous and funny.

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.

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