Animator Quotes:

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

- Chuck Jones

topic: Actors, Animator, Pencils

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do

- Dan Castellaneta

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspired, Sometimes, Animator

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

- Joseph Barbera

source: Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

topic: Drinking, Sleep, Animator

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

- Terry Gilliam

topic: Well Known, Wells, Animator

I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

- Dan Scanlon

topic: Animator

All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

- Dean DeBlois

topic: Tools, Animation, Animator

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

topic: Team, Boss, Cinema, Animator

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

- Darren Aronofsky

topic: Live Life, Second Chance, Long, Animator

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

- John Lasseter

topic: Character, Drawing, Actors, Animator

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

- Chuck Jones

topic: Men, Ideas, Wells, Animator

Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Inspirational, Memories, Sometimes In Life, Sweet Memories

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there

- Jason Marsden

topic: Art, Form, Wanted, Animator

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

- Walt Disney

source: "Animated Architecture". Book by Derek Walker, 1982.

topic: Positive, Funny Inspirational, Attitude, Animator, Nothing Can Stop Me

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Trying To Fit In, Just Being You

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

- Ralph Bakshi

topic: Done, Looks, Animation, Animator

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Pain, Emotion, Shock, Animator

I still have the same outlook on things that I did 10, 20 years ago. As an animator, there’s no career path that you can follow; there’s very few people doing this that you can look to and pinpoint the mistakes. It hasn’t changed since I was little. You have interests and follow them and strange things happen, organically or not.

- Don Hertzfeldt

source: "Don Hertzfeldt’s Animated Short “It’s Such A Beautiful Day” Screens At IFC". Interview with Kathleen Massara, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2012.

topic: Mistake, Years, Careers, Animator, Career Path

Animating is a very slow, pain-staking process and the animators become the actors at that point.

- Wes Anderson

topic: Pain, Actors, Process, Animator

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

- Ralph Bakshi

topic: Running, Guy, Today, Great Company, Animator

Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland

- Walt Disney

topic: Ideas, Years, Today, Animator, Disneyland

I think all directors should be animators.

- Steven Spielberg

topic: Thinking, Directors, Should, Animator

You draw the character from all angles - side, profile, back, etc. so the animator has this character in all the ways it looks like.

- Marjane Satrapi

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Character, Way, Etc, Animator

Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.

- Andy Serkis

source: Source: www.slashfilm.com

topic: Character, Emotional, Creating, Animator

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

- Walt Disney

source: "Fictional character: Cinderella". "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. 1950.

topic: Dream, Love You, Heart, Animator, Disney Company

nothing is impossible

- Walt Disney

source: Walt Disney (1988). “The jungle book”, p.17, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.

topic: Happiness, Inspiring, Moving On, Nothing Is Impossible, Animator

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

- Matt Groening

source: "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons". Season 4, Episode 1: "Kamp Krusty", www.imdb.com. September 24, 1992.

topic: Funny, Life, Humor, Animator, Funniest Simpsons

Disneyland is a work of love...Drawing up plans and dreaming of what I could do, everything. It was just something I kind of kept playing around with.

- Walt Disney

topic: Dream, Drawing, Kind, Love Drawings, Meaningful Work

I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

- Wayne White

topic: Artist, Careers, Lucky, Animator, Illustrators

A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Family, Inspiring, Happy Family, Inspirational Family

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Flower, Inspiring Movie

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

- Walt Disney

topic: Men, Artist, Skills, Animator

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

- Dr. Seuss

source: Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Graduation

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

- Walt Disney

source: Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Motivational, Jobs, Work, Little Bee, Pollen

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

- Walt Disney

topic: Glasses, Entering, World, Another World, Animator

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Mean, Fighting, Evil, Animator

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

- Walt Disney

topic: Past, Nostalgic, Animator

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

- Ralph Bakshi

topic: Trying, Quality, Levels, Animator, Mannerisms

If the animators could hide something so secretly that I could watch it numerous times, both on the computer and on the screen, and not pick up on it, then it deserves to be in the movie. But if they had more overt things, I'd often tell them to cut it out. In general, as long as they captured the spirit of the character, then they're fine. But sometimes it took a while, and we had to replace a lot of animators.

- Richard Linklater

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Character, Cutting, Long, Animator

The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

- Matt Groening

topic: Scary, Flying, Cameras, Animator, Scary Things

Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?

- Walt Disney

topic: Kings, Disneyland, Animator

It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.

- Walt Disney

topic: Communication, World, Limitless, Mass Communication, Animator

Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.

- Walt Disney

topic: Daughter, Fun, Children, Animator, Parks And Recreation

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

- Walt Disney

topic: Eye, Past, Color, Animator, Past And Present

Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures?

- Walt Disney

topic: Nature, Lying, Flower, Beautiful Creatures, Animator

Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

- Chuck Jones

topic: Art, Simple, Drawing, Animator, Single Line

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

topic: Growing Up, Kids, People, Animator, Childlike Wonder

The thing with animation is that you record the actors like a radio show and then the animators become actors in their own way because it's their job to take this puppets and make them seem alive. They bring their own personalities to the way they move these puppets.

- Wes Anderson

source: "Wes Anderson on Darjeeling Limited: The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 22, 2007.

topic: Jobs, Moving, Personality, Animator

Sometimes I am just playing the character. I will move out of the way of the microphone, and they will have to tell me. Because I am moving around a lot. I am performing the cat. The animators look for that material, to see if they can put it back into the movie.

- Antonio Banderas

source: "Mike Myers and Antonio Banderas Talk Shrek the Third!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 11, 2007.

topic: Moving, Character, Cat, Animator

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

- Gore Verbinski

topic: Phones, Directors, Gone, Animator

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Real, Comic, Animation, Animator, Comic Strips

I want to see abstract art move. Especially in the '30s, you had animators doing innovative work, and I was entranced by that. It's basically what you see when you close your eyes, when you fall asleep.

- Michel Gondry

topic: Art, Moving, Fall, Animator, Abstract Art

Animation is so much work! I don't know if I have the skills to really hack that. Maybe as storyboard artist or something like that. But you have to go to school to be an animator. I can't just pop behind the animator's table and be like, "Here I am.".

- Kate Beaton

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: School, Artist, Animation, Animator