Motion Graphics Quotes

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit.

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.

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

I would love to do some motion capture work just to be able to challenge myself.

If you need to do a movie where you have an army of 10,000 soldiers, that's a very difficult thing to shoot for real. It's very expensive, but as computer graphics techniques make that cheaper, it'll be more possible to make pictures on an epic scale, which we haven't really seen since the '50s and '60s.

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

The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between music and design, because it has the motion and it has the dynamics of music, while at the same time having the aesthetic components of design. It's a nice mix.

I think animation can tell more than live action.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

When I started work with LucasArts Computer Division back in 1984, I went to the Palace of Fine Arts and saw the Festival of Animation for the first time. I loved the diverse collection of animated films the festival held.

Doing animation is great fun. It's like a different world.

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.