“To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights a...” — Hayao Miyazaki Quote

“To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.”

“I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.”

“We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.”

“I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.”

“Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.”

“Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.”