Biography

In 1996 he wrote a picture book entitled "Disney's Animation Magic". It explained the step by step process of creating an animated film.

One of three producers of animated films to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The film was Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Has a daughter named Emilie Hahn-Anderson.

Last name is pronounced "Hawn".

Served as a moderator for a cast/crew reunion panel discussion at the premiere of a revival/promotional screening of the 1989 Disney classic The Little Mermaid (1989) at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on September 7th, 2006. He also presented the new Roger Allers short film, The Little Matchgirl (2006), and introduced Roy Edward Disney, who paid an unannounced visit to the screening.

... you tend to categorize animation as a genre as opposed to a technique.

I think animation at its heart, all good animation, is allegory for us as human beings.

The best thing about The Lion King (1994) is that together we made something that not one of us could have made on our own and that is a very magical thing.

[on the standing ovation that an unfinished Beauty and the Beast (1991) received at the Sundance Film Festival] I felt like a cross between the pope and 'Eva Peron'. It was incredible.

I remember when we were almost finished with The Lion King (1994) and we brought Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas down to watch it. These were two guys who taught all of us and they liked it but they had that, you know, air of "I have a few notes".