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.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.