I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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 - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

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.

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

Listen for the call of your destiny, and when it comes, release your plans and follow.

It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place.

Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

There can be neither beauty, nor trust, nor security between a man and a woman if there is not truth.

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.