I began my career creating art for an animated feature film, and it has been a life-long dream to tell some of the story of my own life - the story behind my art - through the medium of motion pictures.
People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.
I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.