“I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.” Quote by Ralph Bakshi
“Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.” MadeRealizingLordRingsNot InterestedDoing Me Author:Ralph Bakshi
“You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.” FeelingsDrawing Author:Ollie Johnston
“I thought of the character being real, a living person, not a drawing.” PersonsRealCharacterDrawingBeing Real Author:Ollie Johnston
“The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.” SimpleShapesBoundsCirclesConstructionSimilarityMickeyDuplication Author:Ollie Johnston
“An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.” FirstsHas BeensBodyMightEatingFemaleDisorderDisgustingPropositionsEpidemicsEating DisorderFemale Body Author:Rachel Cusk
“For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when it's up on the screen, it's never as wonderful as those moments when it's drawn, to me.” MomentsJoyWonderfulSittingScreensDrawingDesksAnimation Author:Glen Keane
“Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.” WorldYearsGenerationsDrawsPhonesPassingPassingsAbsentArielSketchbooksDoodling Author:Glen Keane
“If you are offered the opportunity to do something that you don’t know how to do – say yes, dive in and do it anyway.” IfsKnowsOpportunityKnow How Author:Glen Keane
“I used to think that animation was about moving stuff. In order to make it really great, you bounce it, squash it, stretch it, make the eyes go big. But, as time went on, I started loving animating a character who had a kind of burning passion in her heart. Suddenly, animation became for me not so much about moving stuff as it was about moving the audience.” ThinkingHeartKindCharacterBigsEyeMovingUsedOrderPassionStuffAudienceBurningReally GreatAnimationBounceSquashBurning Passion Author:Glen Keane