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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated.

There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.