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

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

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.

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.

Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.

Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.