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"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
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"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
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"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
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"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
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"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
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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."
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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s."
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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
Age
"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."
Creativity
"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."
Chance
"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
Animals
"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
Reading
"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
Film
"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
Animation
"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."
Creativity
"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."
Art
"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
Work
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