Richard Williams

“A good walk is a beautiful thing. It’s a series of controlled falls.”

“The way to do it is to put an idea down and then let it sit there. And have a lot of ideas. The more ideas, the better.”

“Animation is the illusion of life.”

“Everything is in the drawing.”

“If you are trying to be inventive, you can be boring. Originality is a byproduct of sincerity.”

“I was trying to make the best-animated film ever.”

“Don't animate drawings. Animate feelings.”

“You've got to be a bit of a masochist to be an animator.”

“Learn to draw. Everything else will follow.”

“What we're trying to do is find the life in it, the thought process, the feeling.”

“The horrible thing about animation is that it's just so damn slow.”

“Work on the accent, the inner voice, the rhythm of the character.”

“The Animator's Survival Kit is really about the grammar of animation.”

“It's all about the performance.”