Animator Quotes

Ray Harryhausen

Matt Stone

Ralph Bakshi

Roy E. Disney

Art Clokey

John Kricfalusi

John Edgar Park

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

It's a universal tendency in films to be more about sex and violence than the real world is, but I would pose the opposite question: Why are so many characters that you see on TV so desexualized? A lot of them seem to be completely asexual — especially animated characters — and it implies that those characters are normal. The characters in Aeon Flux are normal people who have normal sex lives and appetites.

The essence of Gumby is that he makes children feel safe. He's their greatest pal.

I came into DreamWorks looking to direct. I was hoping to go through story as a way toward directing, because that's how it worked at Disney, story people became heads of story, and heads of story became directors. And they said, 'Right now we don't have a lot of story, but we have visual development,' and I said, 'Good, I paint!'

Let me make this clear: Ren & Stimpy really is a children's show. It was made for kids. I'm not putting anything in there that I don't think a kid can watch, or should watch. It's completely a kid's show.

John Kricfalusi

That's right! You're watching the DVD! So, the coolness of what the bowing man is doing is self-evident to you!

I keep wondering why the Academy decided that they needed a separate category for animated films just at a moment when there are a lot of people who couldn't tell you whether a film is animated or not.

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master-artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

John Edgar Park

Although Gwangi had been an allosaurus in Obie's version, I decided to make him more of a tyrannosaurus, and so I used elements from both species to make what I suppose could be called a 'tyrannosaurus al'. This combination allowed me a flexibility between aggressiveness and agility. If you like, he was glamourized.

Ray Harryhausen

Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath. The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air – taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced.