Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.

Animation is manipulating the difference.

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

Hope knows no fear.Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

The little woman, wearing a pink and black zigzag-striped pantsuit over a black turtleneck, resembled a skinny zebra who'd OD'd on Pepto-Bismol.

We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.

It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

It was only in the theatre that I lived

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.