 As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. |
| I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works. |
| I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. |
| I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence. |
| Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit! |
| All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives. |
| Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms. |
| My good films were independent and my bad films were not. |
| Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. |
| What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. |
| I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness. |
| Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. |
| Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. |
| Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. |
| My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them. |
| I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. |
| Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art. |
| Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. |
| You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. |
| They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. |
