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.
The art of cartooning is vulgarity. The only reason for cartooning to exist is to be on the edge. If you only take apart what they allow you to take apart, you're Disney. Cartooning is a low-class, for-the-public art, just like graffiti art and rap music. Vulgar but believable, that's the line I kept walking.
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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.
Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.
Someone's been mean to you! Tell me who it is, so I can punch him tastefully.
I separate cartooning, which is fun and wacky and soulful, from illustration, which is very well-drawn and extremely uptight to look at. There's a difference. I'm a cartoonist.
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.
I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings
Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself.
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
John [Kricfalusi] is so arrogant. He thinks he's me!
The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.
Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love.
I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.
I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!
My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
