Quotes

I really don't think it's possible to be a good animator if you can't be a good draftsman.

[on Wolfgang Reitherman and his frequent recycling of old animation] I detest the use of-it just breaks my heart to see animation from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) used in The Rescuers (1977). It kills me, and it just embarrasses me to tears. I went back to Florida with Woolie for a party for the wire services and the press for Robin Hood (1973). And I met a guy who about twenty years ago I met at a friend's house; he was with Paramount at the time, a publicity man. His name was Emory Wister; he worked for the Charlotte Register. He is a Disney buff, an animation buff. And these guys always scare me, because they know more about the pictures than I do. And he recognized this goddamned animation, where Maid Marian is dancing around with little creatures; he recognized it from Snow White. This is our Woolie, and it drives me crazy.

You can do anything you want with animals because we're doing animals doing things that animals don't do. People aren't used to watching animals do this stuff and so they're not critical but they're used to watching people move around, talk and do everything and so they become very critical of them.