[On how Fine Arts Films was born] "I developed a short animated film and presented it to Disney. It was 'Tara the Stonecutter', but it was turned down. I found this old Japanese legend in a Tokyo bookstore in 1953 while on a Far East tour with Bob Hope, entertaining the GIs in Korea. I was sure that 'Tara' could be included in the new cartoon world started by UPA that I opted to make it myself."