Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.

I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

I just like the fact I can make a film which might give comfort to some people who think they are the only crazy person in the world and suddenly they see there are two crazy people in the world.

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker.

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work.

I saw my real gods . . the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.

Breaking your family's heart was the price you paid for rescuing your own.

Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.

I may no explain you much about myself but we both have one thing in common & its tears.

The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.