Michael Giacchino Quotes

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

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

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

With 'Toy Story,' which is a fantastic film but is essentially animation, you get to make all your decisions beforehand. 'Jumanji' is shot much like any other action film.

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

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

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

I've always been a fan of animation. As a kid, I used to watch a lot of the Saturday-morning cartoons, and I was always a fan of even claymation and that whole medium.

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

'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.

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.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

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

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.

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

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.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

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

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

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.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

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.