Animation Genre Quotes

I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.

I watch the same cartoons over and over again. I watch Adult Swim. I watch 'Futurama' repeatedly.

When 'Family Guy' came along, it was like a gift, and it expanded my fan base.

In 'Bojack,' at least at first, we had to couch some of the sadder or weirder or introspective stuff we were doing in the costume of a typical adult animated comedy. With 'Undone,' it felt like we'd outgrown that expectation.

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.'

I don't see why it's such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film.

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.

Speed Racer is good to cut your teeth on, but if anyone has not seen Akira, go get it.

There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.

I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'

Anybody in animation today would be lying if they said they weren't somehow influenced by 'The Simpsons' to a certain degree. Except for the shows that go out of their way to look as far from 'The Simpsons' as possible.

I was disappointed that 'Tangled' didn't get nominated for Best Animated Film.

I do enjoy animated movies.

I have not grown up on movies. I didn't watch much films in my childhood, but I was fond of animation films.

The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as a powerful visual medium by which you can tell virtually any kind of story in any genre.

I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'