As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

An animator is an actor with a pencil.

Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.

The universe is perfect. All fault lies within the self.

A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and the social anthropology around the free throw - it's interesting.

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

The devil was the first democrat

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.