Animating Quotes

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you`re animating unless you`ve had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you`ve done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

When I think about the way the computer has taken over and eliminated a certain experience of life, that makes me sad. When we were animating fire some staff said they had never seen wood burning. I said, "Go watch!" It has disappeared from their daily lives. Japanese baths used to be made by burning firewood. Now you press a button. I don`t think you can become an animator if you don`t have any experience.

You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, `This is not funny, like we haven`t figured something out, scrap it.`

I`m drawing, animating and writing better than I`ve ever been before, and I love my life with my wife Carol and the excitement of our new baby!!

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.