“America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.”

Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres.

Negotiating with Disney isn’t like good cop/bad cop; it’s like bad cop/Antichrist.

I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.

Each film I make gets more popular, more press and makes more money. So it’s amazing that I’ve survived and actually prospered doing that sort of homegrown, cottage-industry filmmaking.

I had a very hard time accepting myself as a character actress, because I wanted to be glamorous and a leading lady like everybody else. I looked in the mirror and thought I looked pretty good, but casting didn’t ever see me that way.

When you are like a maniac, you just have to accept where you are and what’s going on in your life.

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means – whatever that means.

You’ve got to really be able to accept the rejection.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.