I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”
“Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.”