Don Bluth Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.”

“I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.”

“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!”

“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.”

“I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz.”

“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.”

“If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.”

“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.”

“Dragon's Lair 3D is about as close as you can come to controlling an animated feature film.”