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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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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."

"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."

"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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