Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

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

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

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

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

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.