Jodi Benson Quotes

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

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.

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative.

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

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

Any type of animation, it could be really super crude or very sophisticated, it doesn't mean anything if we don't make this point in this shot, this one here and this one here. There's the saying, 'One shot, one thought.' It's pretty much a true way to go.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

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

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

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

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

I think animation can tell more than live action.