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I feel like with 'On the Town,' it was the perfect production and the perfect opportunity.

I've always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Being a kid during the '80s, I feel I didn't really get the full experience.

What was once underground is now coming to the surface.

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

My father used to say it was just there, the opportunity. It was all teed up for him. The talkies were starting, and here was Hollywood waiting for people to come from New York who had the training, who could do music with a sense of dramatic context.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.