Animation Age Ghetto/Quotes: Difference between revisions

[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|MLP]] is no different.''"|'''Drake''', ''[[Bronyism (Blog)|Bronyism]]''}}

{{quote|''Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence....When I was ten, I read fairytales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.''|'''[[CS Lewis (Creator)|C. S. Lewis]]''', ''On Three Ways of Writing for Children''}}

{{quote|''A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.''|'''[[CS Lewis (Creator)|C. S. Lewis]]'''}}

{{quote|''"Do you see any [[Teletubbies]] in here? Do you see a slender plastic tag clipped to my shirt with my name printed on it? Did you see a little Asian child with a blank expression outside in a mechanical helicopter that shakes when you put quarters in it? No? Well that's what you see at a toy store, and you must think you're in a toy store because you're here shopping for an infant named Jeb! Now one of us has made a gross error, and wasted the other person's valuable time. This is an art gallery, my friend, and '''this is a piece of art.'''"''|[[Samuel L. Jackson|Elijah Price]] on comicbook art, ''[[Unbreakable]]''}}

{{quote|''CNN and news media in general... if you're going to write a story titled "Biff! Bam! Kapow! Comics aren't just for kids anymore!" please rename it to "Patronizing Thoughts On A Medium I Only Know Stereotypes About Which I Happened To Acquire Decades Ago".''|'''[[Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic)|Ryan North]]''', [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|The Rant]] for [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1345 November 13 2008].}}

{{quote|''Mr. Nick! What are you doing watching'' [[World Masterpiece Theater|Kids' Masterpiece Theatre]]''? You should be watching shows for your own age!''|'''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Pearl Fey]]''' (Age 9), ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]: Justice For All''}}

{{quote|''"Animated movies are not just for kids -- they're also for adults who do a lot of drugs."''|'''[[Yellow Submarine (Animation)|Paul McCartney]]''', presenting the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature. This also [http://www.cartoonbrew.com/events/up-wins-golden-globe.html has not passed without comment].}}

"Benjamin Kirby Tennyson, don't even think about it!"|Ben and Gwen Tennyson, [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]. [[It Makes Sense in Context]].}}

{{quote|''Animation and film in this country really started back in the day with two different styles of performing: [[Melodrama]] (if you look to your classical black-and-white silent films, ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'', D.W. Griffith stuff) and vaudeville ([[Buster Keaton]], [[Charlie Chaplin]]); and if you look at animation, it's pretty similar. The [[Warner Bros]], [[Looney Tunes]] stuff tends to be the vaudevillian, Daffy Duck-fall-on-his-face kind of thing, and [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]] tends to be the melodrama. But Disney was obsessed with doing childhood fantasy, and that became sort of the dominant theme for animation. So, animation in this country sort of got equated with one genre; the entire medium of animation in America kind of got associated with this one genre- "for children," [[Trope Codifier|and that's pretty much because of Disney]]. The only alternative, then, is the [[Looney Tunes]] sort of "irreverent animation", which then turns into ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'', ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'', and ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'', where it's going to be very adult, [[Satire]] sort of storytelling, and there's a wasteland in the middle.''|'''[[Crispin Freeman (Creator)|Crispin Freeman]]'''}}

{{quote|''When people make an animated movie, they know that they're making it for kids. They wouldn't be making an animated movie otherwise, because they know adults wouldn't see it. So obviously they are aiming for a young audience.''|'''Michael''', an interviewer over the movie ''[[Tintin (Filmfilm)|Tintin]]'' [http://www.hollywood.com/news/Adventures_of_Tintin_UK_Trailer_Violence_in_Animated_Movies_Debate/7846799 in this article].}}

{{quote|''"Honey, they didn't have any [[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]] stuff, so I got this thing called [[Urotsukidouji|Legend of the Overfiend]]. Is that okay?"''|'''[[What the Fuck Is Wrong With You (Web Video)|Nash Bozard]]'''}}

{{quote|"There are shackles with the budgets and the profit margins. You want to compete with what they’re doing at [[Pixar]] and [[Dream WorksDreamWorks]]. There’s a price tag with that just in terms of achieving that quality level. What happened to the [[Ralph Bakshi|Ralph Bakshis]] of the world? We’re all sitting here talking about family entertainment. Does animation have to be family entertainment? I think at that cost, yes. (...) What I’m saying is we could make animation that’s not for the kids to see, too. I don’t think you want to say, “Hey, bring your family to this movie that’s inappropriate.” But animation can be so much more if we let those boundaries loose."|[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hollywood-reporter-animation-roundtable-tintin-275984 Gore Verbinski]}}