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"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."
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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."
"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"
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"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."
"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."
"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'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."
"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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