Money-or Rather The Lack Of

What Seems Real To The Mind Can Be As Important As Any Material Fact. We Live By The Spirit And The Imagination As Well As By Our Senses. Cartoon Animation Can Give Fantasy The Same Reality As Those Things We Can Touch And See And Hear.

To Some People, I Am A Kind Of Merlin Who Takes Lots Of Crazy Chances, But Rarely Makes Mistakes.

We Seem To Know When To 'tap The Heart.' Others Have Hit The Intellect. We Can Hit Them In All Emotional Way. Those Who Appeal To The Intellect Only Appeal To A Very Limited Group. The Real Thing Behind This Is: We Are In The Motion Picture Business, Only We Are Drawing Them Instead Of Photographing Them.

I Just Make What I Like - Warm And Human Stories, Ones About Historic Characters And Events, And About Animals. If There Is A Secret, I Guess It's That I Never Make The Pictures Too Childish, But Always Try To Get In A Little Satire Of Adult Foibles.

It's Silly To Build A Wall Around Your Interests.