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

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

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

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

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

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

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.