Jeff Dunham Quotes

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

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.

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.

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.

A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.

Everyone talks about the gags, but the most difficult thing is coming up with the stories. You have to learn to do that for sitcoms.

From the moment we started working on the first 'Wreck-It Ralph,' we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters.

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.

It took me five years to make 'Kubo and the Two Strings.'

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

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

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

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

A big part of directing animation is deciding what you really want to do and making sure it's about something. My favorite thing about animation is the storytelling. You can really dig into the story and spend time with the writers. The writers don't just write and leave.

With 'Korra' we've really taken a lot of time to craft it. We're aiming pretty high, and in order to keep up the quality it just takes a lot of time and a lot or work.

I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters, and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

I really enjoy watching animation films and I have always been curious about how such well-established actors in Hollywood lend their voices to animation films.

Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

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.

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.