George A. Romero Quotes

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

Pixar has invented much of computer animation as it's known today, and I've been very lucky to be the first traditional animator to work with computer animation.

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

The animators working with these 3D models, they're artists, right? They're great at what they do. They're artful in how they move characters about.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

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

A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.

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.'

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.

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

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

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great.

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

I don't have anything against CGI.

If people want to watch a CG movie, there's plenty out there.

As I look back on my career, I had a goal, which was to build the first feature computer-animated film.

What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies.

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.

ILM was the first company that I had worked at that had a computer-graphics division.

Doing 3D on 'Hugo' was a big learning curve for me, but fun!

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

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.