John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!

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.

friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

I feel like nothing is impossible.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.