Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

I love that books allow us to experience other lives without us ever having to change where we live or who we are.

By changing—we become what we always wanted to be.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.

I have a pet goat.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.