Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

I hate losing laughs; they're rare things.

Reality and fantasy, we need both of those to survive. If we don't have fantasy, dreams and all of those things, what's the point of carrying on? And you need to watch out for reality because buses come.

The whole point of animation to me is to tell a story, make a joke, express an idea. The technique itself doesn't really matter. Whatever works is the thing to use.

My problem is I'm like a junkie. I want a good movie fix, and I never get that fix.

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

It's hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I'm not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven't been sympathetic to mine.