I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.

A gem of a short film has a sense of pure joy in animation that is different from anything you see in a feature film.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

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.

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.

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