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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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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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"I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in."
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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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"Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s."
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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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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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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour."
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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
Animation
"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
Animation
"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
Animation
"I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in."
Animation
"Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all."
Work
"If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!"
Joy
"The only one that seems to be able to hold the business is Disney. They do it is because they have a fabulous philosophy about marketing- but even they wavered."
Business
"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."
Music
"I cannot explain why they made that sequel to Secret of NIMH. Because they claim that it the original didn't make money, so what was the enthusiasm to make a sequel?"
Money
"In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line."
People
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