As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

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.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

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.

If you know how it’s to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others.

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life

Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.