I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.