As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

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 stage structure.

It never started with a lightbulb. It started very slowly. I found it hard watching animated cartoons. It bored me. I was bored, unhappy, and miserable.

After Coonskin, the industry caught up to me. I didn't want to deal with children anymore. They wanted me to do things like Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien was one of the greatest fantasy writers of all time. But the amount of effort and time that I put into it burnt me out. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do. It took more out of me then I got back.

Cartoon crudeness should follow up with emotion. That's what I prefer.

All these animated films that are being made will eventually start to crash. They will start to eat on each other, and some kid's going to come in with Heavy Traffic 2 and take it all.

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.

Katzenberg and those guys make the world's worst pictures, and when the pictures don't work, like horses trying to eat apples off of trees and talking, they blame the technique!