Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.