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.

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, and that was Wizards.

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

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

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.

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