For whatever crispness and animation my writing has I give some credit to the cartoonist manque.
My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
A lot of people have helped me along the way. But you know the biggest thing for me was when computer animation came along.
I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.
If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
I can't stand the idea of missing something. I've got to know what's going on - it's like an animal instinct with me.
I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an animal in the jungle stupid enough to go for them.
I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
No matter what anybody says, relationships are based on physical attraction. The first time I saw my wife, it was pure animal whatever.
In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds.
I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.
The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.
Darwin: Shoot, you animals. They'll pay you well for Darwin's hide.
