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

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.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

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.

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