As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated – even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

I think the audience is truly all ages: I don’t put anything in there that kids can’t see, or shouldn’t see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult.

I think his discovery scared even him. Sometimes Frankenstein has to kill his own monster.

I don’t go for the nouvelle approach – serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I’m much more interested in metaphors and myth.

I’m 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

Fear is the number one reason why people never live up to their potential.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn’t.

Omit and substitute! That’s how recipes should be written. Please don’t ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

Tesla understood the universe, he just didn’t understand the world.