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.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

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.

The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the most about the spy genre is when you have a great bad guy. What makes a great bad guy, to me, is the logic. What he's about has to make sense to me, that if I was in his shoes, yeah, right, that makes sense.