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

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

The more we all help each other, the more we all benefit. So go out there. Help others.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them ok, be sad now. Humor, you can add. Even to the last minute you can be adding little bits of humor. But the true earned emotion is something that you really have to craft.

It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.

Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.