Noelle Stevenson Quotes

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

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.

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

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.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

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.

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

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

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

The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

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

When I was a kid, I wanted to make movies. In particular, I loved animation and would love to have been an animator.

I wrote a big animation scene for 'Iron Fists,' but we couldn't afford all that.

I want to make my own animes.

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