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.

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.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

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.

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 am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.