#animation

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. ↗

— John Lithgow

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Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. ↗

— Smedley Butler

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The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

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My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

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Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

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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. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

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No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

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