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.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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

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 Deep as the final sequence.

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 very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

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.