It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.
Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed.
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.
I would say just in general, in life, I'm more willing to be animated as a person, and so obviously onstage as well.
But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
