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

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.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

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.

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.

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