Marc Davis Quotes

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don’t like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn’t have that many people who could draw humans.

What we were in on, really, was the invention of animation.

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you’re animating unless you’ve had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you’ve done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.