Walt Disney had always tried to get more dimension in his animation and when I saw these tapes, I thought, This is it! This is what Walt was waiting for! But when I looked around, nobody at the studio at the time was even halfway interested in it.

This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.