Welcome to our curated collection of Animation Quotes, where we delve into the captivating world of animated storytelling and creativity. Animation is a remarkable art form that transcends boundaries of age, culture, and language, captivating audiences worldwide with its ability to bring imagination to life. From the earliest hand-drawn animations to the cutting-edge CGI of today, animation has continuously evolved, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and inspiring generations of artists, filmmakers, and viewers alike.
Through its unique blend of visuals, sound, and narrative, animation has the power to evoke emotions, provoke thought, and transport us to fantastical realms limited only by the bounds of imagination. Whether it’s the whimsical charm of classic cartoons, the epic adventures of animated feature films, or the intricately crafted worlds of anime, animation has an enduring appeal that resonates with audiences of all ages. Join us on a journey through the magic of animation as we explore insightful and inspiring quotes from some of the greatest minds in the industry. Discover words of wisdom, humor, and inspiration that illuminate the artistry and passion behind the animation process. Stay tuned as we unveil a treasure trove of quotes that celebrate the rich tapestry of animation.
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don’t always come. Ravi Shankar
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. Steven Spielberg
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. Katherine Dunn
It’s always hard when you’re working on a project, and you’re seeing it in bits and pieces, whether that be film, television, video games, animation – you only really have perspective of what you’re interacting with. Matthew Mercer
Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. Leonard Maltin
My parents had a software company making children’s software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers to program the software, and these guys were true hackers, trying to get more colors and sound and animation out of those computers. Bre Pettis
When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time. Joe Murray
Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue. Douglas Wood
You’ve got to be able to make animation for much less… Less is not the studio’s way. Don Bluth
America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation. Bill Plympton
What I love most about animation is, it’s a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination. Jeffrey Katzenberg
The nice thing about animation, you don’t even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away. Paul Newman
If I’m doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I’m doing three different voices, you’ve gotta separate them. You’ve gotta find the different places and do your different things. Pamela Adlon
Animation is not easy and requires a lot of work on detailing which need ample of time. Aishwarya R. Dhanush
I do enjoy a bit of the fantasy world that anime provides, but at the same time, I need the reality in it. I’m very much a stickler about the actual animation. I’m not into the cutesy, stereotypical animation with big eyes and a small chin. That annoys the hell out of me. Thundercat
On the ‘Tom and Jerry’s,’ Joe and I would sit across a desk from each other and develop the story. Joe would do the storyboard and I’d do the timing and the direction of the animation. William Hanna
Depression is melancholy minus its charms – the animation, the fits. Susan Sontag
We wanted the elemental ‘bending’ to be based on authentic Chinese traditional martial arts, believing this would lend a beauty and resonance to the animation and the fictitious disciplines. Once we had that idea, I started looking for a Kung Fu teacher/Martial Arts consultant. My search led me to Sifu Kisu and I began training with him right away. Bryan Konietzko
Animation did not become the dominant form of children’s television until the ’60s. Annette Funicello
Computers don’t create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. John Lasseter
Look what Disney’s done to their animation department. There wasn’t an animator in charge of their animation unit! Ralph Bakshi
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime. Hiro Murai
One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don’t trust you to do something different. In animation, it’s all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It’s a really marvelous environment that’s extremely creative. Diedrich Bader
‘How To Train your Dragon 2’ is an amazing film. I think it’s an extraordinary film. The animation in it is fantastic. Andy Serkis
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it. John Lasseter
But probably for the last ten years or so, I’ve been fitting in animation work into my other projects. Dave Rowntree
I think animation can tell more than live action. Makoto Shinkai
There’s always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there’s plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. Matt Groening
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music. Tina Weymouth
It’s not like the computer magically does it for you. Animation just takes forever. Stephen Hillenburg
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. Smedley Butler
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. Matt Groening
I loved ‘The Matrix,’ so when they asked me to do some animation relating to it, I was thrilled. Shinichiro Watanabe
Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement. Gerald Scarfe
‘Snow White’ was really hip for its time. Walt Disney was basically using Sigmund Romberg and operetta in the telling of the story, and through animation – that was revolutionary. Alan Menken
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. Walt Disney
If you’re sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that’s entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it’s the storytelling. That’s why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. John Lasseter
If I wasn’t acting or doing stand-up, I would be in animation. Or if I had the discipline I might studies physics. Chris Hardwick
Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent. James Coburn
It’s very hard to adapt something. You end up changing it too much to make a good movie out of it. I prefer to work with things that are custom made for my kind of animation. Nick Park
Nothing’s occurring in animation – you manufacture everything. Gore Verbinski
Animation had been done before, but stories were never told. Marc Davis
Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig. Aziz Ansari
I’m having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. Ralph Bakshi
‘Toonami’ was a tremendous vehicle, delivering the art of Japanese animation to a massive audience that may have otherwise never experienced it. I feel an immense debt of gratitude to everyone involved with the show and to every fan who supported it. Steven Blum
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. Walt Disney
I get asked a lot if I’d want to get into live-action movies, and the answer, honestly, is ‘no.’ I’m an illustrator, and I think animation is an extension of that way of expressing myself. That’s not to say I’d never make a live-action movie, but I don’t strive for it. Chris Renaud
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don’t understand animation, things can go awry. Don Bluth
I am an animator. I feel like I’m the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I’m rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work. Hayao Miyazaki
Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. Ralph Bakshi
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. Richard Burton
In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn’t work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They’re relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. Tim Burton
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. Theodore Bikel
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different… totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before. Sergio Aragones
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can’t create it if you don’t have one. Brad Bird
One of the best animated films I’ve seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn’t crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan’s face, but the traditional animation was spectacular. Ralph Bakshi
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you. Chuck Jones
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. Walt Disney
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. Christopher Nolan
Loom.ai will accelerate making human co-experiences more immersive and personal, adding world-class facial animation technology as part of Roblox’s efforts to provide expressive emotive actions to avatars that will enable deeper connections for our community. David Baszucki
I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made ‘Spirited Away’ and ‘Castle in the Sky.’ They’re like the Japanese version of Disney – but without all the schmaltz. Jamie Hewlett
Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom. Cai Guo-Qiang
Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I’ve ever seen. Marie Lu
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn’t go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is. Don Bluth
One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry. Margaret Wertheim
I guess my first digital movie was ‘Tintin’ because ‘Tintin’ has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It’s 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I’m still planning to shoot everything on film. Steven Spielberg
‘Aladdin’ was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. ‘Aladdin’ was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn’t a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me. Zachary Levi
In all animation, if it’s done quickly, you’ll know it. And if you’re very slow and careful with it, it’s going to look a little more beautiful. It’s just compressing time into seconds. Henry Selick
It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre. Dwayne Johnson
I brought in the stories many times. I don’t just do animation. Ray Harryhausen
A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right – that’s something you can’t rush. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did. H. Jon Benjamin
The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now. Dave Rowntree
In animation, there’s this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT’S what I was doing. John Lithgow
I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, click, move, click. All that. I love all forms of animation, but there is something unique and special to stop-motion: it’s more real and the set is lit like a set. But I think it’s also a kind of lonely and dark thing to want to do. Tim Burton
What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together. Tom Wujec
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. Ralph Bakshi
You don’t have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big. Sean Hayes
I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation. Pamela Adlon
It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn’t belong. Don Bluth
Yes, actually. Animation’s a very easy thing to watch on tour. Dave Rowntree
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. Ralph Bakshi
For me, animation is the caricature of life. It’s something that we create, from the ground up. Genndy Tartakovsky
In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh. William Hanna
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. Ralph Bakshi
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time. Gerald Scarfe
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don’t have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there’s this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. John Lasseter
I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons. John Lasseter
I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time. Tara Strong
The surprising thing was, it’s actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head. Jim Davis
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. Kenneth Branagh
It’s a hilarious part of my past, all the sitcoms I did in the ’80s. And then all the animation – animation is amazing. It’s really been great. Pamela Adlon
I know pretty well in the broad sense what I’m going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it’ll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires. Ray Harryhausen
I’m a huge nerd, I admit to that. I love to play video games, I love to read, and of course, I’ve gotta still get my studies in and all. I love to learn. But I also love to do stop motion animation with my little Lego figures. I love to play around on the computer with that. Atticus Shaffer
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It’s hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time. Matt Groening
Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh. Mark Roth
Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio. Elijah Kelley
I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, ‘Tom and Jerry,’ and of course Disney. And also by Fellini’s ‘Giulietta of the Spirits’ and Kurosawa’s ‘Ran.’ And by other American illustrators and painters. Henry Selick
I don’t think I would want to do an animated movie because I’ve already made so many hours of animation that what’s the point? I’d want something new and weird to challenge me in a different way. Christopher McCulloch
I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences. John Hench
