See With Eyes Unclouded By Hate.

To Be Born Means Being Compelled To Choose An Era, A Place, A Life. To Exist Here, Now, Means To Lost The Possibility Of Being Countless Other Potential Selves.. Yet Once Being Born There Is No Turning Back. And I Think That's Exactly Why The Fantasy Worlds Of Cartoon Movies So Strongly Represent Our Hopes And Yearnings. They Illustrate A World Of Lost Possibilities For Us.

[on The Future Of Hand-drawn Animation] I'm Actually Not That Worried. I Wouldn't Give Up On It Completely. Once In A While There Are Strange, Rich People Who Like To Invest In Odd Things. You're Going To Have People In The Corners Of Garages Making Cartoons To Please Themselves. And I'm More Interested In Those People Than I Am In Big Business.

The Single Difference Between Films For Children And Films For Adults Is That In Films For Children, There Is Always The Option To Start Again, To Create A New Beginning. In Films For Adults, There Are No Ways To Change Things. What Happened, Happened.

I Do All My Work By Storyboard, So As I Draw The Storyboard, The World Gets More And More Complex, And As A Result, My North, South, East, West Directions Kind Of Shift And Go Off Base, But It Seems Like My Staff As Well As The Audience, Doesn't Quite Realize That This Has Happened. Don't Tell Them About It.

I Think Talent Decides Everything. More Than The Method, What's Important Is The Talent Using It. There's Nothing Inherently Wrong Or Right About A Method, Whether It Be Pencil Drawings Or 3-d Cg. Pencil Drawings Don't Have To Go Away, But Those Who Continue To Use The Medium Lack Talent. So Sadly, It Will Fade Away.