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"Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work."
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"If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job."
"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
"A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth."
"Ruth Cole was a novelist, novelists are not at their best when they go off half-cocked. She believed that she would prepare what she was going to tell the police - preferably in writing."
"Speaking about work isn't working."
"You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can't perform."
"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
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"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."
"I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works."
"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."
"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."
"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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