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

It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

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.

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