Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
Film has to describe and show.
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
