Tim Burton Quotes

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

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

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

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.

There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

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

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Ghibli is about craftsmanship. They draw characters and put life in it.

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

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and they do such a remarkable job, I think you can be more realistic with your acting. It gives the story and what's happening to you the feeling that it's a game.

I made tons of films. I did animation for my friends' films. I animated scenes just for the fun of it. Most of my stuff was bad, but I had fun, and I tried everything I knew to get better.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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.

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

Pixar is not about computers, it's about people.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

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.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our 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.