A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right – that’s something you can’t rush. – Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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. – Matt Groening
I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choices to match their animation. – Mickey Rooney
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
In a movie, it’s often important to have aliens whose gestures and facial expressions can be ‘read’ by humans. And in the days before sophisticated computer animation, most extraterrestrial bit players were guys in rubber suits. Such practical considerations forced Hollywood’s hand when it came to aliens – they look like us for good reasons. – Seth Shostak
Look what Disney’s done to their animation department. There wasn’t an animator in charge of their animation unit! – Ralph Bakshi
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. – Ralph Bakshi
I’m having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. – Ralph Bakshi
It’s weird – on almost every film I’ve worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same. – Pete Docter
My first movie I saw when I was a kid was ‘The Jungle Book.’ I was 5 years old, and I saw it in a movie theater. Seeing that movie really lit the fuse and ignited my passion for animation. – Rich Moore
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
The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years. – Yuri Lowenthal
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. – Theodore Bikel
I’m interested in animation. I actually feel like I’ve learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie. – Zack Snyder
The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising. – William Godwin
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
We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it’s all post-production animation after that. – Steve Burns
In animation, action is changing so quickly that there’s really not a lot of suspended moments. – Thomas Newman