Victor Navone famous quotes

It's a lot easier to teach someone how to use a computer than it is to teach someone how to be an artist, so we figured if they can animate with a pencil, we can teach them how to animate with a computer.
-- Victor Navone

#Artist #Use #Computer

We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out of school or people come from other studios, they're gonna have different points of view and we want to make sure we're vetting all the ideas to get the best ones. A lot of people are shy about speaking up if this is their first time at Pixar or if they don't have a lot of experience, so we try to encourage that.
-- Victor Navone

#School #Views #Ideas

The fun of being a supervisor is that you kind of get to shape the film as a whole rather than crafting a complete scene. I can't really think of one in particular that I feel like I own, except for a couple shots that I animated, which is fun. But feeling like you contributed to the whole is the most satisfying thing.
-- Victor Navone

#Couple #Fun #Thinking

We've got to stay on our [animation] game, make sure we still remember how to animate.
-- Victor Navone

#Games #Remember #Animation

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

I don't know anything about computers.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.