Mario Cantone Quotes

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

I was always into cartoons and animation.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

It's amazing what they can do with animation nowadays. It's really beautiful. The 3D stuff is out of hand.

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'm interested in animation. I actually feel like I've learned so much about the process how to make an animated movie.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

My livelihood depends on the art of animators.

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

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

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

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

Animation is incredibly difficult - much like doing a giant sweeping fantasy novel.

If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

I'm the biggest fan of animation. I love the history of animation, I know it well.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

The nice thing about animation is that you can realise your inventions without understanding all the hard theory.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point.