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

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney.

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

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.

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

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.