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.

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.

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.

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.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

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