We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
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.
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.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings
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.
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.
Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.
Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.
I'm aware that I should end a joke with the good part, I choose not too.