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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

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

The success of The Simpsons really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

But probably for the last ten years or so, I've been fitting in animation work into my other projects.

Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.