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.
I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There’s a difference. I’m a cartoonist.
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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.
I’m from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I’m a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
I’m having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I’m not interested in doing anyone else’s work.
Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. It’s disgusting.
Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
Look what Disney’s done to their animation department. There wasn’t an animator in charge of their animation unit!
Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.
One of the best animated films I’ve seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn’t crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan’s face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.