Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

Hyperbole is something Id better avoid.

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

The more money you have to work with, the more people you have to deal with that you probably don't want to be spending time dealing with.

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.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.