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

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.

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'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

Influence is when you don't talk and yet your words fill the room when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.

Every ten years or so, I liked to do a film about an artist - this allowed me to reflect on our own work.

The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family It is great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

The depressed fall back exhausted from every undertaking.

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men!

Panic is our great enemy.

Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly.

Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.