You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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.
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.
Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
My work is so unorthodox that from one panel to the next, the drawings are completely different... totally opposed to the way of working in something like animation, where every drawing has to look like the one before.