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I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

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

I realized that people make cartoons for a living. It had never dawned on me that you could do this as a career.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

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.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work.