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

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.

Quality is the best business plan.

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

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

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

If you can think about it, you can create it.