Frank Miller Quotes

I don't have anything against CGI.

We can do things that we never could before. Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds, and computers make that world even more believable.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.

Clearly, if we'd had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

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

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

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

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

The thing with computer-generated imagery is that it's an incredibly powerful tool for making better visual effects. But I believe in an absolute difference between animation and photography.

The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

Every film that comes out that incorporates CGI or performance capture is a little bit ahead of the last film that came out. You're on the cutting edge for a certain amount of time, and then the new technology comes out.

I'm excited about what technology is offering storytellers and movie- and TV-makers.

If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

'Avatar' means so many things to so many different people. When I think of the creation of it, I think of me and Mike at the computer in a little apartment in Burbank.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

We're not purists about stop-motion. If there's a tool we can use that makes more sense to bring something to life in a better way, we'll use it, whether that's hand-drawn animation or CG or some newfangled technology we're developing.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

CGI is to me like watching a cartoon. It can be effective, if it's done well. A lot of times you don't feel any real risk. You're watching a bunch of computer-generated graphics.

If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.