All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.