Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

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

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.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

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

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

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?"