What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

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.

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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