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" They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. "

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" I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence. "

" The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them. "

" 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. "

" One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular. "

" Film has to describe and show. "

" Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. "

" As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks. "

" Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat. "

" You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker. "

" Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure. "

" Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work. "

" What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. "

" I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film. "

" 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. "

" Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons. "

" Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. "

" I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat. "

" Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs. "

" Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms. "

" I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien. "

" My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them. "