I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

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

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.

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.

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.