"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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"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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"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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"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."

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"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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"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."

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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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