Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art..

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by execu….

Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms..

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film..

I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works..

I wouldn't leave Disney to do Disney..

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..

The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take ….

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong..

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work..

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them..

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was so….

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..

I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a di….

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs..

I hired Bob at Terrytoons. He was my assistant animator, and then became an animator himself. He had just come from Boston with his family and was a ….

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are ….

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids,….

Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical s….

I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Dee….

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion..