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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."

"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."

"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."

"For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made."
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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."

"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."

"What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion."

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

"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"

"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 had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."
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