Stop Motion Quotes

I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

I think animation can tell more than live action.

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

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.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I always considered Ray Harryhausen's work so fine that it was way out of my league: in terms of realism and naturalism, in terms of animal movement.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

Animation has completely changed, and I've always been a big fan.

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

I hate downtime. I hate it so much. I like to relax like anybody else, but I hate not doing anything. In my life I'm either going full speed or I'm at a stop.

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.

Watching 'Dark Crystal' now, having made Muppet films, it really strikes me just how ambitious that film is in terms of the constructs, the builds, the puppeteering.

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

Digital effects have progressed ten thousand years' worth since we shot 'ED 2,' but practicals are still just the same: Blood pumps, rubber latex, glue, the works.

Every 'Star Wars' film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

Around 2000, I was working on cartoons like 'PB&J Otter' and 'Doug.'