There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

I don't have a dog, because I travel too much. I don't want to just leave it abandoned.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.