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

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

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

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

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.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

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.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Nature is a petrified magic city.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

Stupidity is not another form of knowledge.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

People who achieve their goals do so with passion, planning, persistence and purpose.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.