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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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"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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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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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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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome."
Authority
"As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction."
Emotional
"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
"Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything."
Love
"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
"You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business."
Business
"I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes."
Danger
"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
Animation
"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 have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners."
Design
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