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There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
When you do an animated series and add characters who are not from the canon, you really have to win over the hardcore fans.
I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.
I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.
That's what's great about animation: It's collegial, and it's all about collaboration. Any good animated film is good for animation.
'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is, to my mind, the greatest American animated series ever produced. The characters lived and breathed.
I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.
The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.
There are so many options in animation right now and this is such a great time to make animated movies that I want to make another one.
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.
Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the Hundred Acre Wood are among the most entertaining and beloved characters ever animated by Disney.
I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children.
It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.
The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.
One of the things that set us apart early on, as opposed to other animated shows, was the fact that 'Bojack' was continuous and serialized.
You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.
The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.
I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & Clark' series. I watched that when I was in college.
All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.
The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72. Then I didn't do animation until 'Batman.'
Seth MacFarlane, he's kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.
I'll just say that America - us included - has a long way to go to catch up with the animated work being done in a handful of countries, namely Japan.
The hardest thing to do with an animated movie is to not make it feel synthetic: to feel like it's handmade, where you can sense the human hand in it.
'South Park' movie was R. There's a place that people are not occupying, thinking that animated has to be family always, and I don't think that's true.
A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
If you look back at Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' or 'Pocahontas,' animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived.
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
I would say the biggest difference is that you're just in a studio by yourself when you're making an animated movie. You don't have anybody to play off of.
The heart of Dragon's Lair has always been its compelling story. With Dragon's Lair 3D, we think the team has really created an interactive animated movie.
I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
I never read any of the comics, but I grew up on the animated series when I was a little kid - I guess it came out in 1992. So I've always been an 'X-Men' fan.
If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.
There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
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 don't want this to come off bad at all, but I really don't watch Disney shows. I don't. I like the animated ones, but I just don't have time to watch a lot of TV.
Mainstream animated movies are dumbed-down and sanitised: they make the world in their own image rather than exploring the limitless possibilities that are out there.
If I'm really jet-lagged and need to get to sleep, I just try and watch cartoons. As long as it's animated, I don't care - it has to have that distance from real life.
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