Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't