Animation

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
Success
Animation
Kids
Television
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
Animation
Discovery
Film
Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
John Lasseter
Animation
Challenge
Kids
Play
If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
John Lasseter
Animation
Children
Computer
Importance
Will
Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John Lasseter
Life
Animation
Desire
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
John Lasseter
Mother
Animation
Baby
Computer
Film
Novelty
Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.
John Lasseter
Time
Thought
Animation
Disney
Waiting
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Imagination
Love
Animation
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
Chuck Jones
Animation
Key
Mind
I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.
John Hench
Work
Animation
You don't have a face to work with, so your voice has to do all the work until you see the animation. So, a lot of it I had to pull back because it was too big.
Sean Hayes
Work
Animation
Voice
I know pretty well in the broad sense what I'm going to do, because I have to know that when we shoot the live-action, so that it'll synchronize. Then I know pretty well when I get to the animation stage, what that scene requires.
Ray Harryhausen
Animation
Pretty
Sense
I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen
Animation
When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.
Matt Groening
Time
Animation
First
Nothing
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
Matt Groening
Animation
Writing