Once the voices are in your head, it's either make a movie or kill a lot of people.

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.

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

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.

Cole, for Christ's sake, will you stop staring at me like I'm beefcake of the month?

You ought to dare impossible things. These will be possible by ceaseless reliance on a higher power.

...the reason is that when we look at nature, we receive a sort of permission to be alive in this world...

Instead of magnifying the problem in your thoughts, magnify God.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

There is no other salvation except that which begins and ends with grace.

The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

If you arent focused on success, youre failing.