One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

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.

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 wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.