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 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.

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.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Treasure is uncovered by the force of flowing water, and it is buried by the same currents.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

If you don't look out for others, who will look out for you?