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

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 animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

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

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

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.