Animated Features Quotes

There's a lot of movies, and I've made some of them that could be categorized this way, but there's definitely been a trend in animated features of all types to be a little bit cynical, if you will, to have a little bit of 'knowing' humor to them, kind of a wink to the audience.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.

'The Little Mermaid' is my favorite of the Disney animated features. And, I could not wait to see it on Broadway.

Animation tends to have several different writers who serve different functions. I think, on a lot of animated features, there are a lot of writers who don't get credited. It's the policy at Disney, for instance, in deciding who gets credit. It depends on the writer's contract, so many things.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

I do really like doing animated movies. I like watching animated movies, and I always have. That's something I didn't let go of, from when I was a kid. It's always exciting for me to get to do that. Animated movies are so rarely bad.

I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.