"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."

Movies, Fantasy, Kids

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat."

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"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."

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"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."

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

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"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."

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"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film."

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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

Victoria Jackson, American Comedian

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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