I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.

We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.