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Animation Director Inspirational Quotes (116)

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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
Chuck Jones
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The close-up, according to D.W. Griffith, allows subtle changes of facial expression-the raising of an eyebrow or the flicker of a smile-to become part of the action.
Chuck Jones
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I loved Road Warrior the first time. I saw The Road Warrior before I saw Mad Max, you know, I saw it in reverse order. And so I was, I've always been a fan of George Miller. This sequence I think got storyboarded after Fury Road came out I think as I recall. So I think, you know, we were inspired [making Maora].
John Musker
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I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
Chuck Jones
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See with eyes unclouded by hate.
Hayao Miyazaki
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People who are open about their own faults, especially, often want to ferret out inner feelings beneath the surface and expose any falsehood, and they think that it's in their inner feelings that the truth lies. But I don't think that's the truth.
Mamoru Hosoda
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Animation isn't the illusion of life it is life
Chuck Jones
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The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as the character I visit the locations of the story many, many times. Only after that I start drawing the character, but again I do it many, many times, over and over. And I only finish just before the deadline.
Hayao Miyazaki
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Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Chuck Jones
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I don't intentionally make deep movies.
Hayao Miyazaki
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There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I believe that fantasy in the meaning of imagination is very important. We shouldn't stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination.
Hayao Miyazaki
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An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.
Chuck Jones
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I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.
Genndy Tartakovsky
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Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
Hayao Miyazaki
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To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.
Hayao Miyazaki
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With the assumption that animation is a medium for children, I want to make movies that reaffirm the future, and let them know that this world is a world worth living in.
Mamoru Hosoda
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