85 Quotes by Don Bluth

When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

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.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business.

Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That's a lot of people.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.