Gore Verbinski 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

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.

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

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.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

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

I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the 'Avatar' world. We would be really excited.

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

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

I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on the big screen is completely mind-blowing.

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.

A big part of directing animation is deciding what you really want to do and making sure it's about something. My favorite thing about animation is the storytelling. You can really dig into the story and spend time with the writers. The writers don't just write and leave.

'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.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film Hercules and I had to imagine what all the characters looked like. And to develop those characters, so nothing exists visually when I get the script.

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

I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.