I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

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