Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.

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

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

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.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

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.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.