Animated Quotes: Walt Disney

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

~ Walt Disney

Animated Quotes: Lotte Reiniger

Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theaters and Shadow Films

"You must not copy a naturalistic movement, but must feel the movement within yourself, for when you will have to animate an animal you must be that animal, moving as it does. The animation will always be stylised, but this stylisation must be true."
~ Lotte Reiniger
Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films
pp. 101-102

Animated Quotes: Walt Disney

"Another ugly rumor is that we are trying to develop girls for animation to replace higher-priced men. This is the silliest thing I have ever heard of. We are not interested in low-priced help. We are interested in efficient help. Maybe an explanation of why we are training the girls is in order. First, I would like to qualify it with this--that if a woman can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man.

The girls are being trained for in-betweens for very good reasons. The first is, to make them more versatile, so that the peak loads of inbetweening and inking can be handled. Believe me when I say that the more versatile our organization is, the more beneficial it is to the employees, for it assures steady employment for the employee, as well as steady production turnover for the Studio.

The second reason is that the possibility of a war, let along the peacetime conscription, may take many of our young men now employed, and especially many of the young applicants. I believe that if there is to be a business for these young men to come back to after the war, it must be maintained during the war. The girls can help here.

Third, the girl artists have the right to expect the same chances for advancement as men, and I honestly believe that they may eventually contribute something to this business that men never would or could. In the present group that are training for in-betweens there are definite prospects, and a good example is to mention the work of Ethel Kulsar and Sylvia Holland on The Nutcracker Suite, and little Rhetta Scott, of whom you will hear more when you see Bambi." (emphasis mine)

~ Walt Disney addressing his employees, 1941

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations, edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson, p.17

Animated Quotes: Floyd Norman

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life

"It's great to work with this cool technology, but you have to serve the story. It’s the content. That's what the audience responds to. Ultimately, if the story doesn't work and it's not compelling, the technology isn’t going to save you."

~ Floyd Norman
SIGGRAPH keynote address
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Animation Quotes: Lotte Reiniger

Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theaters and Shadow Films

"Your aim must be to find what kind of talent you really have and to develop it. Animation is basically not so much a technical implement as the expression of the spirit behind it. To see that that spirit goes into your shooting must be your overriding ambition."
~ Lotte Reiniger
Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres and Shadow Films
pp. 117-118

Animated Quotes: Ralph Bakshi

"The computer is the greatest single instrument that ever happened to an animator."
~ Ralph Bakshi
Source: Cartoon Brew Interview, May 5, 2014

Animated Quotes: Nelson Mandela

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
~ Nelson Mandela

Animated Quotes: Tim Burton

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
~ Tim Burton

Animated Quotes: Walt Disney

"Another ugly rumor is that we are trying to develop girls for animation to replace higher-priced men. This is the silliest thing I have ever heard of. We are not interested in low-priced help. We are interested in efficient help. Maybe an explanation of why we are training the girls is in order. First, I would like to qualify it with this—that if a woman can do the work as well, she is worth as much as a man.

The girls are being trained for inbetweens for very good reasons. The first is, to make them more versatile, so that the peak loads of inbetweening and inking can be handled. Believe me when I say that the more versatile our organization is, the more beneficial it is to the employees, for it assures steady employment for the employee, as well as steady production turnover for the Studio.

The second reason is that the possibility of a war, let alone the peacetime conscription, may take many of our young men now employed, and especially many of the young applicants. I believe that if there is to be a business for these young men to come back to after the war, it must be maintained during the war. The girls can help here.

Third, the girl artists have the right to expect the same chances for advancement as men, and I honestly believe that they may eventually contribute something to this business that men never would or could. In the present group that are training for inbetweens there are definite prospects, and a good example is to mention the work of Ethel Kulsar and Sylvia Holland on “The Nutcracker Suite,” and little Retta Scott, of whom you will hear more when you see Bambi." [all emphasis mine]

Walt Disney
February 10, 1941

Source:
"Talk Given by Walt to All Disney Employees, Walt Disney 1941"
Walt Disney, (Book edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson)
Walt Disney: Conversations
University Press of Mississippi. 2005.

Animated Quotes: Bill Plympton

"I sell out all the time... I’m happy to sell out. I need the money to keep my studio going and pay my employees. I’ve done a lot of advertising and the cool thing is that I love it. When my folks saw my Geico spots on television by surprise, that’s the most proud they’ve ever been."
~ Bill Plympton

(referring to the commercial he produced for the Con Edison campaign to convert houses from heating oil to natural gas.)

Source: Animation Magazine online article, Jan. 24, 2014

Animated Quotes - Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
~ Calvin Coolidge

Animated Quotes: Andrew Carnegie

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
~ Andrew Carnegie

Animated Quotes: Harvey Mackay

"A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves."
~ Harvey Mackay

Animated Quotes: Lord Byron

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
  ~ Lord George Gordon Byron
     English poet & satirist
     (1788 - 1824)

Animated Quotes: Thomas N. Carruther

"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."
  ~ Thomas N. Carruther

Animated Quotes: Benjamin Franklin

"One today is worth two tomorrows"
~ Benjamin Franklin

Animated Quotes: Charlie Chaplin

"A day without laughter is a day wasted"
~ Charlie Chaplin

Animated Quotes: Bruce Lee

"It's not the daily increase but the daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential"

~ Bruce Lee

Animated Quotes: Brad Bird

“the point is, animation is not a genre. It is a method of storytelling. People are constantly analyzing it and misanalysing it as if it is a genre. It isn’t a genre. It can do horror films, it can do adult comedies if it wanted to, it could do fairy tales, it could do science fiction, it could do musicals, it could mystery, it can do anything.”
~ Brad Bird, 1997

Animated Quotes: Abraham Lincoln

"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
~ Abraham Lincoln