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

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.

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

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

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.

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.