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When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

Any time you get to work with creative people - animators, actors, directors and producers, all of this - it helps to refine what tools you'll need moving forward.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!