I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

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.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.

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