105 Quotes About Animated

When I was a teenager, I did one animated series back when I was on 'General Hospital.' It was 1971 or '72. Then I didn't do animation until 'Batman.'

Their biggest threat is glut of product, when suddenly parents and kids have too many animated film products available to them,

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

The idea of an animated film is you always kind of get a little bit daunted by it as a filmmaker because it feels like a lot of your communication is going to be with computer artists, and you're going to have to kind of channel the movie through extra pairs of hands.

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

It's trying to change 70 years of perception that an animated movie isn't a fairy tale and doesn't have dancing tea cups and...funny camels.

I've thought of being a point guard in the NBA. I've thought of a number of things that won't happen. But I never thought of this, ... You look at someone who belongs on television, they tend not to be a twitching. When you're watching, they're solid, like they belong there. ... An animated character can be like me. Look at Jim Lehrer, and look at his hair. There's no way I can compete with that.

Our big guys were more animated than they have been the entire season.