In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don't think of whoever the 200 writers are.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.