“What's kind of wonderful about being the voice in an animated film is you're a small part of an enormous production. And in a way, you get to remain a little bit objective.” WayKindLittlesFilmBitsVoiceWonderfulLittle BitProductionsEnormousObjectivesAnimatedSmall PartsAnimated Films Author:America Ferrera
“Ever since I was little, people would always make jokes about my low voice. But I think it's so cool that you don't have to have the picture-perfect, girly voice to do an animated film. I think it's great for kids with different voices to know that they could do something like this.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLittlesDifferentKidsFilmVoicePerfectLowsJokesAnimatedGirlyDifferent VoicesAnimated FilmsPicture Perfect Author:Miley Cyrus
“So much emotion can be brought in an animated film that's very hard to get in a live-action film. I haven't quite put my finger on why, but it might be because the characters can make facial expression that, if you made them in a movie, they'd call them corny.” IfsMadeHardCharacterMightActionFilmEmotionHavensExpressionFingersCornyAnimatedFacialAction FilmsFacial ExpressionAnimated Films Author:Steve Martin
“The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.” ThinkingFeelsImportantStoriesFilmHoursEmotionWatchesMusic IsCrucialTomsAnimatedJerryAnimated FilmsTom And Jerry Author:Rihanna
“I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've never done a ballet or an animated film myself." There are certain things that I feel I'd love to. I just want to keep trying new things and seeing if I'm any good at them, and if I'm not, then at least learning that. I definitely think I'm more interested in what medium I can explore right now than any specific story.” IfsThinkingWantFeelsTryingI CanDoneStoriesAbleFilmCertainSeeingHavensRight NowMediumsLuxuryBalletNew ThingsAnimatedKeep TryingIntriguedTrying New ThingsAnimated Films Author:Joss Whedon
“I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in my house and all of it seemed to say that there was room for a version that delivered, in this story, which seems to invite a feeling in people and I think that is some version of a classical world.” ThinkingWorldStoriesFeelingsSeemsFilmHouseRoomsCoupleTalesVersionsFairyInvitesFairy TaleAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Kenneth Branagh
“I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it, screen it, go back, then work on it a little bit more. If the joke doesn't work, you can fix it. It's different from a live action movie.” IfsKindLittlesDifferentPlayActionFilmBitsProcessLittle BitJokesScreensExperimentsAnimatedAction MovieAnimated Films Author:Steve Martin
“I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is different because we know the characters are real people, so they always stay flawed for us somehow. But animated films touch us in a very clear, uncomplicated place. They have that ability. And an animated character can make an expression in a way humans can't do.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayHumansDifferentRealCharacterActionFilmAbilityClearExpressionFlawedAnimatedAction MovieUncomplicatedAnimated Films Author:Steve Martin
“I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.” HeartActionFilmDifficultEmotionAnimatedAction FilmsAnimated Films Author:Steve Martin
“I personally just want to do as many different things as I can do, whether it's comedy, drama, science fiction, horror, narrator... You've got a documentary, I've got a voice. Animated films. Big films, small films.” WantI CanDifferentBigsFilmVoiceCan DoFictionComedyDramaHorrorScience FictionDifferent ThingsDocumentariesAnimatedNarratorsAnimated Films Author:Colin Farrell
“The whole thing that drew me to doing an animated film is that you're freed from the physical limitations of your physical body. All of a sudden, you get to be something that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a 6'4", lumbering dude, and that is really exciting.” WholeFactsBodyFilmExcitingLimitationAnimatedPhysical BodyAnimated Films Author:Jason Segel
“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.” StoriesInspirationActionFilmHumanityMovedAnimatedAction FilmsAnimated Films Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher
“The quality and success of Disney was actually bad for us animators because everyone on the planet thought that animation was only for kids and only in a certain domain. The big film festivals never thought much about animated films.” BigsKidsFilmCertainQualityPlanetsDomainFestivalsAnimationAnimatedAnimatorFilm FestivalsAnimated Films Author:Michel Ocelot
“I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.” KnowsWholeAbleFilmWonderGenerationsMagicGrewGrew UpGreat ThingsAnimatedContributingTorchesNew GenerationAnimated Films Author:Jim Cummings
“I have some calls out to Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy. I said, 'I won't star in any blockbuster films if you stay out of animated films.' They just won't call me back.” IfsSaidFilmStarsCall MeTomsAnimatedCruiseMurphyBradBlockbusterAnimated Films Author:Jim Cummings
“I've done animated TV stuff, but I'd never done animated film work, which is much more involved and much more labor intensive. The animators are much more meticulous and detailed. It's just been really fun and really satisfyingly creative.” DoneFilmFunStuffCreativeTvsInvolvedLaborAnimatedAnimatorMeticulousAnimated Films Author:Ty Burrell
“Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators have to have total freedom. There are films that are born with the purpose to sell. They are still admirable films with great artists and great visuals, but we wanted to use a more radical approach to create art. That's what we tried to do.” WorldMeanArtStillsUseWantedFilmPurposeArtistProcessBornBoysApproachSellsCreatorRadicalVisualsGreat ArtAnimatedAdmirableGreat ArtistAnimated Films Author:Alex Abreu
“I'm a huge fan of the animated film 'The Land Before Time' and that was one of my favourite animated films when I was growing up.” FilmGrowing UpGrowingFansLandHugeFavouriteAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.” FeelsWould BeFilmProcessTermWeekMaterialsTvsEfficiencyAnimationAnimatedCrankAnimated Films Author:David X. Cohen
“I am pretty interested in trying to write and produce an animated film at some point, but that's a job that takes several years, minimum, to get an animated movie going.” WritingTryingYearsJobsFilmProduceMinimumAnimatedI Am PrettyAnimated MoviesAnimated Films Author:David X. Cohen
“There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.” WayFilmBitsSoundVoiceDifferencesAcceptingAudienceFiguresPersonalityCoachesConvinceTextureAnimatedDialectTenorsAnimated FilmsDialect Coach Author:Tituss Burgess
“Well, I'd never done an animated movie before, which is why I was so excited about doing it. It was one of the little boxes as an actor that I wanted to tick off. I wanted to do an animated film. So, after my mum got over the fact that I was never going to play Shrek's sister, this was the nearest I was going to get!” WellsLittlesDonePlayFactsWantedFilmActorsBoxesExcitedMumAnimatedTickAnimated MoviesAnimated Films Author:Ashley Jensen
“My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.” WayStoriesHomeHandsTogetherFilmSoundCuttingStyleStudentsTheoryProductionsFilmmakingFacilityAnimatedBerkeleySlugsOld MovieAnimated FilmsCelluloidUc BerkeleyFilm Production Author:Elisa Kreisinger
“I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.” ThinkingMightFilmNextSeriousAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Miles Teller
“I've been with that project [ Sausage Party] since its inception, since they wrote the script. It took them four years to get anyone to make the movie, because it was so filthy and there was this firm belief that there wouldn't be a market for an adult animated film, even though 10 or 15 years prior, South Park [Bigger, Longer, And Uncut] did really well.” YearsWellsFilmBeliefPartyFourProjectsAdultsBiggerSouthScriptsFirmParksFour YearsAnimatedFilthySausageInceptionFirm BeliefsAnimated Films Author:David Krumholtz
“Sausage Party is my first animated film, and there's a doll of me. There's a doll of all the characters. There's a doll of me, and I found it on Amazon. It just came out. I ordered it, and I just got it the other day. I was like, "I'm going to order 25 more of these." My daughter really loves it.” FirstsCharacterFilmOrderFoundPartyDaughterMy DaughterAnimatedDollsAmazonSausageAnimated Films Author:David Krumholtz
“I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.” FilmGoalMy OwnAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Arik Roper
“I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.” IfsWorldIdeasPlayCharacterWould BeFilmActorsPerformancesAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Alan Tudyk
“If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.” IfsChildrenStoriesFilmAmountComputerSittingImportanceStorytellingYour ChildrenSeatsEntertainingAnimationAnimatedAnimated FilmsMinivansComputer Animation Author:John Lasseter
“'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.” BookFilmSawsCinemaJungleAnimatedTehranAnimated FilmsJungle Book Author:Marjane Satrapi
“I've always loved animation and animated films.” FilmAnimationAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Michael Sheen
“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.” WayInspirationalRunningPastHurtLearningRunning AwayLearning From MistakesFamous InspirationalLife LearningLearn From The PastDisney CompanyAnimated FilmsLion King Author:Walt Disney
“The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.” PeopleIfsKnowsImportantHardRunningActionFilmUsedSexRocksMarketingSellingDepartmentAnimatedRock MusicAction FilmsHard RockAnimated Films Author:Don Bluth
“Joanna Priestley’s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.” BodyFilmSpiritualPleasureRichInternationalInsightContemporaryUnexpectedAnimatedDilemmaAnimatorNew WorkPantheonAnimated Films Author:Bill Foster
“Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.” HandsActionFilmEmotionSighAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Ralph Bakshi
“[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.” IfsMadeWould BeFilmGuyPartyGood TimesAwardsIntroducingOscarsAnimatedAnimated FilmsLegos Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“I'd like to drill in a little more detail into one aspect of cutting which is particularly close to me and that's dialogue editing. It is a vital part of editing especially in animated film, but in the end it is usually completely transparent to the audience. The vocal performances are reported for over several years and the actors are very rarely in recording studios together. That's why the editor has got to all these different performances and edit them together to create the illusion of spontaneity and real action.” YearsLittlesDifferentRealEndsActionTogetherFilmActorsAudienceCuttingIllusionAspectPerformancesDetailsStudiosDialogueEditorsEditingVocalTransparentSpontaneityAnimatedEditsDrillsRecording StudioAnimated Films Author:Lee Unkrich
“If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.” IfsLooksLittlesCharacterFilmGamesMovementLittle ThingsFunny ThingsAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Don Bluth
“One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.” StoriesFilmFacesCrazyDesignTraditionalAnimationSpectacularAnimatedAnimated FilmsTarzan Movie Author:Ralph Bakshi
“Animated films are so precisely engineered - right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes - how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?” DifferentActionFilmLinesDialogueRealmsDigitalTranslateSpontaneityAnimatedAnimated Films Author:Gore Verbinski