You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

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

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

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

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

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.