When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.

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

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

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.