Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.