Don Bluth

“You can't show a beetle crossing the street and call it a story. It has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. The end must be a resolution, not just a stop.”

“If we don't have a story, we have nothing.”

“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.”

“To move an audience, you have to be moved yourself.”

“In animation, you can be a virtual actor, a virtual director, a virtual cinematographer. You can be everything.”

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”

“If you want to be an animator, you have to be a student of life.”

“You have to have a dark side to have a light side.”

“I think that a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”

“What we're trying to do is make movies that will last, that will stand the test of time.”

“You can't just be an artist; you have to be an entertainer.”

“I believe that the audience is intelligent.”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

“Animation is the illusion of life.”