Animation Artistry Quotes

Pixar is filled with people who don't get rid of their toys.

Miyazaki movies were what I was raised on. I've watched them since I was very young, and I've been greatly shaped by them.

I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.

In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.

I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'

If any single human being is responsible for all this nonsense I've done with my life, it's Ray Harryhausen... In 'Kubo,' you can see some of his influence throughout.

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

For me, one of the great tragedies is the conclusion studios have drawn about traditional animation. I believe that 2D animation could be just as vital as it ever was. I think the problem has been with the stories.

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'

I'll just say that America - us included - has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work being done in a handful of countries, namely Japan.

The only kind of people who pursue stop-motion as a career are people who are absolutely in love with the medium.

All animation is a tremendous amount of work, but when you put 'Star Wars' on the top of something, there's already this bar that people are going to put on it.

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week.

Of all studios that should be doing 2-D animation, it should be Disney.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

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.