I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

There's a thin line between an uncertain 'Yes' and a certain 'No' known as 'lame indecisiveness'.

The only model to follow is pure Islam.

Go out on the front porch of the house, turn the Washington Post over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

I know it sounds stupid, but we're just playing. We're playing hard, but we're just playing.

We can never be born enough.

One good turn asketh another.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

I have less control over how I'm cast and the jobs that I get than people would imagine. Most of us don't have control over that, but I think it's a preponderance of your body of work.