Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make it funny, but you alter it. If it works, it's based on reality. That's what I try to do.

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

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.

There's something about living in the country that I think makes you inventive, because nature is full of miracles and wonder and surprises, and if you don't have much money, you have to make things if you want things.

I have always got medicine I want to give to people.