Dan Scanlon Quotes

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

It feels like animation has a little more independence than traditional sitcoms ever did.

It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.

I'm definitely looking to do more animation stuff.

I think Mike and I would absolutely love to do feature animation. Either another story, or it if worked out, one in the 'Avatar' world. We would be really excited.

Animation is very singular. Like, even the 'Toy Story' movies. People will go, 'Oh, gosh, you're so lucky, getting to play opposite Tom Hanks!' And it's, like, 'It may have appeared to be that, but we were never in the room together.'

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

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

I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

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

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

There was a guy that I got to know pretty well - Joe Grant. He was one of the creators of Dumbo and worked side-by-side with Disney. Being a total Disney nerd, I was obsessed with asking him questions. He was 92 when I got to know him.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.