Every Character In Each Of My Movies

I Separate Cartooning, Which Is Fun And Wacky And Soulful, From Illustration, Which Is Very Well-drawn And Extremely Uptight To Look At. There's A Difference. I'm A Cartoonist.

Wizards Was My Homage To Tolkien In The American Idiom. I Had Read Tolkien, Understood Tolkien, And Wanted To Do A Sort Of Fantasy For American Kids, And That Was Wizards.

I'm From The East Coast. I Love The City. I Love The Characters. I Love The Kind Of People We Are, The Kind Other People Look At In Amazement.

I Hired Bob At Terrytoons. He Was My Assistant Animator, And Then Became An Animator Himself. He Had Just Come From Boston With His Family And Was A Brilliant Draftsman As Well As A Great Jazz Guitarist. We Had Lots Of Fun Nights In Greenwich Village Together And Then Later Hanging In La. Bob Worked On Fritz The Cat , Heavy Traffic , Coonskin , And On Wizards . I Am Terribly Saddened By His Passing And Will Miss Him Dearly.

I Would Like To Have The Original Ending To My Lord Of The Rings Instead Of The One They Released. In My Original Cut I Had The Victory At Helm's Deep As The Final Sequence.