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

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

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

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a brilliant draftsman as well as a great jazz guitarist. We had lots of fun nights in Greenwich Village together and then later hanging in LA. Bob worked on Fritz the Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , and on Wizards . I am terribly saddened by his passing and will miss him dearly.

You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

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.