Quality is the best business plan.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.