Caroll Spinney Quotes

I'll just say that America - us included - has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work being done in a handful of countries, namely Japan.

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.

My animation work is a major source of pride for me.

In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

I won't say which one, but one shot on 'Kubo' took two months to get the expression right. It's ridiculous on some level.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

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

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

As an actor, I always wondered what it would be like to watch an animated character with your voice behind it and see if it seems seamless or if it seems like your voice is isolated from the animation.

With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.

In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.

Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

When I first started working at Disney animation, I can't tell you how many people said to me, 'Oh, man, take a powder.' Nobody takes animated musicals seriously. I swear.

I just didn't realize the unbelievable impact Disney films had on American society until my assistant coached me on the stories and brought me up to speed.