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

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

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.

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

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

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.