Animated Films Quotes:

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Running, Hurt, Life Learning, Lion King

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

topic: Crazy, Design, Stories, Animated Films, Tarzan Movie

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

source: "A Minute With: Disney's John Lasseter on creating Oscar magic". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. February 25, 2010.

topic: Children, Stories, Sitting, Minivans, Computer Animation

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

- Ralph Bakshi

topic: Hands, Emotion, Action, Animated Films

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

- Don Bluth

source: Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

topic: Running, Sex, Rocks, Action Films, Animated Films

That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

- Helena Bonham Carter

topic: Normal, Puppets, Actresses, Animated Films

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

- Don Bluth

topic: Character, Funny Things, Games, Animated Films

So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.

- Steve Martin

topic: Character, Expression, Might, Animated Films

Ever since I was little, people would always make jokes about my low voice. But I think it's so cool that you don't have to have the picture-perfect, girly voice to do an animated film. I think it's great for kids with different voices to know that they could do something like this.

- Miley Cyrus

topic: Girly, Kids, Thinking, Different Voices, Animated Films

What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.

- America Ferrera

topic: Voice, Littles, Way, Animated Films

I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.

- Lee Unkrich

topic: Real, Cutting, Editing, Recording Studio, Drills

Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

- Gore Verbinski

topic: Different, Lines, Digital, Animated Films

I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.

- Bryce Dallas Howard

source: Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

topic: Growing Up, Land, Fans, Animated Films

I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.

- David X. Cohen

source: Source: www.ign.com

topic: Jobs, Writing, Years, I Am Pretty, Animated Films

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

- Helen Mirren

source: "Helen Mirren Interview LOVE RANCH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 29, 2010.

topic: Voice, Long, Film, Animated Films

Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators have to have total freedom. There are films that are born with the purpose to sell. They are still admirable films with great artists and great visuals, but we wanted to use a more radical approach to create art. That's what we tried to do.

- Alex Abreu

topic: Art, Mean, Boys, Animated Films

I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.

- David X. Cohen

source: Source: www.ign.com

topic: Would Be, Tvs, Film, Animated Films

There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.

- Tituss Burgess

topic: Differences, Dialect Coach, Voice, Animated Films

I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.

- Alan Tudyk

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Character, Ideas, Play, Animated Films

Well, I'd never done an animated movie before, which is why I was so excited about doing it. It was one of the little boxes as an actor that I wanted to tick off. I wanted to do an animated film. So, after my mum got over the fact that I was never going to play Shrek's sister, this was the nearest I was going to get!

- Ashley Jensen

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Play, Done, Littles, Animated Films, Animated Movies

I've been with that project [ Sausage Party] since its inception, since they wrote the script. It took them four years to get anyone to make the movie, because it was so filthy and there was this firm belief that there wouldn't be a market for an adult animated film, even though 10 or 15 years prior, South Park [Bigger, Longer, And Uncut] did really well.

- David Krumholtz

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Party, Years, Adults, Inception, Firm Beliefs

Sausage Party is my first animated film, and there's a doll of me. There's a doll of all the characters. There's a doll of me, and I found it on Amazon. It just came out. I ordered it, and I just got it the other day. I was like, "I'm going to order 25 more of these." My daughter really loves it.

- David Krumholtz

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Daughter, Party, Character, Animated Films

I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.

- Arik Roper

source: Source: dailydead.com

topic: Goal, Film, Animated, Animated Films

I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.

- Ty Burrell

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Fun, Creative, Tvs, Meticulous, Animated Films

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

- Elisa Kreisinger

topic: Home, Cutting, Hands, Film Production, Berkeley

The whole thing that drew me to doing an animated film is that you're freed from the physical limitations of your physical body. All of a sudden, you get to be something that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a 6'4", lumbering dude, and that is really exciting.

- Jason Segel

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Body, Facts, Film, Animated Films

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

- Rihanna

topic: Thinking, Important, Stories, Tom And Jerry, Animated Films

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

- Neil Patrick Harris

topic: Party, Awards, Guy, Legos, Animated Films

I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.

- Steve Martin

topic: Real, Character, Thinking, Action Movie, Animated Films

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

- Miles Teller

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Thinking, Serious, Might, Animated Films

Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.

- Bill Foster

topic: Spiritual, New Work, Body, Pantheon, Animated Films

I've always loved animation and animated films.

- Michael Sheen

topic: Film, Animated, Animation, Animated Films

'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.

- Henry Selick

source: "1-On-1 with Henry Selick on The Life Aquatic". LatinoReview Interview, movieweb.com. December 20, 2004.

topic: Book, Fans, Action, Coraline, Gaiman

I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've never done a ballet or an animated film myself." There are certain things that I feel I'd love to. I just want to keep trying new things and seeing if I'm any good at them, and if I'm not, then at least learning that. I definitely think I'm more interested in what medium I can explore right now than any specific story.

- Joss Whedon

topic: Thinking, Luxury, Ballet, Trying New Things, Animated Films

I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a classical world.

- Kenneth Branagh

source: "Kenneth Branagh Talks Updating 'Cinderella' and Working With Disney". Interview with Kara Warner, screenrant.com. March 12, 2015.

topic: Couple, Thinking, House, Animated Films

I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.

- Steve Martin

topic: Play, Different, Littles, Action Movie, Animated Films

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.

- Steve Martin

topic: Heart, Action, Emotion, Animated Films

I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.

- Colin Farrell

source: "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

topic: Drama, Voice, Narrators, Animated Films

I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.

- Jim Cummings

topic: Stars, Film, Cruise, Animated Films

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

- Jim Cummings

topic: Magic, Torches, Generations, Animated Films

The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.

- Michel Ocelot

topic: Kids, Quality, Festivals, Film Festivals, Animated Films

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

- Geoffrey S. Fletcher

source: "Guest Interview: Geoffrey S. Fletcher: Writer, Director of 'Violet & Daisy'". Interview with Justine Browning, www.indiewire.com. June 17, 2013.

topic: Inspiration, Humanity, Stories, Animated Films

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

- Marjane Satrapi

topic: Book, Cinema, Saws, Jungle Book, Animated Films