Great Animators Quotes

#1. All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.

Dean DeBlois

#2. great animators carefully craft the movements that elicit an emotional response, convincing us that these characters have feelings, emotions, intentions.

Ed Catmull

#3. People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

John Lasseter

#4. Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Stephen Breyer

#5. My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#6. And I don't need to look clever. I am clever. The fact that I look clever is merely a bonus.

Derek Landy

#7. The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Clarence Darrow

#8. They had grown up to believe that the natural order of things was for one's home to be a place of freedom and space far removed from the complexities and restrictions of human societies. We

Kobie Kruger

#9. Hold on to your sense of wonder; if you do not have a sufficiently strong one, then develop it. For me, it is the most precious resource in the world.

Arthur Silber Jr.

#10. In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

Chuck Jones

#11. Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

Bill Maher

#12. Considering how long it's been since I said it, I would've assumed I'd be more rusty. Well, that and the fact that the last time I was talking to a horse.

Jessica Bird

#13. I was mentored by great Disney animators at the end of their careers.

John Lasseter

#14. Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues.

Lene Hau

#15. It's not what you're going to take from martial arts, it's what you have to give to martial arts

Saulo Ribeiro

#16. Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

Marie Corelli

#17. When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.

Zicheng Hong

#18. I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

David Levithan

#19. The first case of mad cow disease since 2006 was discovered right here in the United States. The good news, since the cow is in California, instead of putting the cow down, they are going to enroll him in anger management classes.

Jay Leno

#20. I was at Disney for about four years, so I made good friends there. It was a time of not a lot of creativity. It was the end of the first great era, with a few of the original animators. They called them the Nine Old Men. I learned a lot from them, but it wasn't going to be a future home for me.

Henry Selick