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.

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

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

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

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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