#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

#doors #kids #necessarily #opened #really

My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#before #completely #different #drawing #drawings

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. ↗

— Walt Disney

#appreciation #communication #conceive #devised #explain

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#camera #did #father #had #i

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. ↗

— Matt Groening

#because #cartoon #good #good writing #i

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

#around #came #considered #controversial #else

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animation #art #cycles #good #good art

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#animation #children #country #disney #god

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. ↗

— Ralph Bakshi

#another #continuously #die #every #film

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation. ↗

— Marc Davis

#invention #really #were