Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

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.

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.

Empowered Women 101: Confident women know the difference between being a meal ticket and being the meal.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Sleep is still difficult I sleep for three or four hours a day. Usually sometime in the afternoon. I walk in the cold, keep myself numb. I cry less, and less." (James Frey, pg.88)

A lot of people who are passionate about digital or publishing, they either want to be in New York or Brooklyn.

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.