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I still enjoy watching films more than making them.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies.

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.

When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.

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

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.