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.

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.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What's beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.

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.

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.