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

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

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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.

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.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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