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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

Japanimation is a whole different art form.

I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.

With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.