Ryan Potter Quotes

The thing that I enjoy about animation is the fact that it is unbridled, and there are no boundaries; when you are in the room, you don't have to focus on your clothing, make-up, hair, your choreography or your blocking; you really do have total freedom.

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

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.

That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.

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.

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this.

My job was to give 'The Secret Life of Pets' production team lots of options when it came to Duke. So that's what I always tried to do.

From a creative perspective, we've been very fortunate in that doing it the 'VGHS' way gave us unlimited freedom. Whatever we wanted to do, however we wanted to do it, we had that.

I love being able to bring an animator's vision to life and give the breath to the voice of a character.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Doing the podcast, the whole reason to do it is just because I can do whatever I want.

Nobody owns me or my music.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

You have a lot more freedom when you're the sidekick - you can bring a lot more of your own flavor to the role, and you can get away with a lot more.

When you are in control of what the final product is, there is kind of no limitation to what you feel like you can do because you know that if you don't like it, you can just cut it out.

In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

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

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

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

I'm a late-night host that doesn't want to be tied down by time or television or even hosting.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.