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

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.

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

Prot: I'm not tired.Brewer: I am.Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

One life per year. It seemed so moderate a price... until you looked back and realized you could fill a movie theater with your victims.

Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

It's always good to get the bully back one day.

We cannot study everything at the same time.

Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

A sympathy in choice.