My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

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.

Courage is the ability to make yourself take action in spite of your fear.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with everything you have.

You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.

I am not for the left or the right, but for what is right over the wrong. I am not an elephant or a donkey, but a lion that stands only with Truth and my conscience.

A hungry man is an angry one.

Peace is the Only Way for the survival of Humanity

Sugar Ray Robinson was at the top of the boxing world during the 1950's when it seemed that he would either win or lose the championship about every three or four months.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, I've been fighting injuries recently more than facing rivals in the ring.