Sweetheart, I'm The Biggest Ripped-off Cartoonist In

Disney Had Such A Hold On The Mind Of America-they Were Adolf Hitler. The Whole Country Thought Disney Was Some Sort Of God And That Animation Was Some Sort Of Pure Thing For Children.

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 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.

You Cant Second-guess Yourself As A Filmmaker.

I Miss Animation Very Passionately. Not Continuously, But Every Once In A While I Would Die To Do Another Film.