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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team."
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"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
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"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
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"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
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"I never get tired of hearing compliments."
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"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."
Humor

"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."
Awards

"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."
Earth

"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't."
People

"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
Animation

"There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night."
Evening

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."
Idea

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."
Work

"Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me."
Mother
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