Glen Keane famous quotes

04-12-2025

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.
-- Glen Keane

#Believe #Writing #Character
If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.
-- Glen Keane

#Hard Times #Drawing #Enough
For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when it's up on the screen, it's never as wonderful as those moments when it's drawn, to me.
-- Glen Keane

#Drawing #Joy #Sitting
I used to think that animation was about moving stuff. In order to make it really great, you bounce it, squash it, stretch it, make the eyes go big. But, as time went on, I started loving animating a character who had a kind of burning passion in her heart. Suddenly, animation became for me not so much about moving stuff as it was about moving the audience.
-- Glen Keane

#Moving #Passion #Heart
There's an image of Rapunzel free, flying in the air, as a sunburst, which says so much. This is a girl who has to get out and bless the world.
-- Glen Keane

#Girl #Air #Flying
If you are offered the opportunity to do something that you donâ€™t know how to do â€“ say yes, dive in and do it anyway.
-- Glen Keane

#Opportunity
Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.
-- Glen Keane

#Phones #Years #Doodling
People are who they are by the way they react to things.
-- Glen Keane

#People #Way
Believe the impossible is possible
-- Glen Keane

#Believe #Impossible
Believe in the character; animate with sincerity
-- Glen Keane

#Believe #Character #Sincerity

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