I've Never Felt Any Sense Of Competition

The Beauty Of Nature Has Been One Of The Great Inspirations In My Life.

If You're Doing A Large, Complicated Character With Radio Controls, It Might Take A Number Of People Several Months To Make It And If You're Talking About A Quick Little Hand Puppet, It Could Be Made In 2 Days, So There's Enormous Range There, And No Real Easy Generalities.

Do The Jobs You Like Least First. It Makes Each Successive Job Easier.

A Film Is Not Done By One Person. It's Done By A Lot Of People. I Love This Whole Collaborative Aspect. When It Works Well, You End Up With Something Better Than Any Of Us Started Out To Do.

At The Time Of Polaroid - And I Did A Couple Of Other Commercials Just Before I Stopped Doing That Stuff - At That Point I Was At The Level Where They Respect You And Your Opinion And All That Sort Of Thing.