They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

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.

Never forget that each woman is, as a hole in a pocket, which no one can repair, and close that.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud... rock it loud.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

We should fight [mass immigration], we should stop it, we should be proud of who we are and define what we are not.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

I'm just getting better and better. It's just like a bunch of worker bees protecting the king bee, because I'm not a queen bee. I'm a king bee.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.