Marc Davis Quotes

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.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.

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.

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

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

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

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.

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

I have a paper, pencil, and ink sketch for a Mickey Mouse cartoon short entitled 'Mickey's Garden' from 1935.

There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots.

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.

As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

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

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

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.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

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.

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

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.