I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

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.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.

Film has to describe and show.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

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.