I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

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Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.

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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!

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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.

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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.

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