Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.

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.

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

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.

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

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.