Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Each character represented a trait that resides in me.
Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities.
I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.
I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.
