The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.

I think all directors should be animators.