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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.