I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

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

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

Today we live in a world now where it is easy to confuse truth and popularity. And you can use money to amplify whatever you believe and get people to believe what is popular is now truthful. And what is not popular may not be truthful.

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

I was raised not to talk about money. It was considered impolite.