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

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

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

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.

Be willing to give up something you believe to be of value to get something of greater value.

Don’t wait for miracles but believe and be so strong enough in invisible virtues like faithfulness.

Be thankful.Be grateful.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.