I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

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.

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?

We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to our way of life and our basic values.

Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us.

I have heard that the most valuable thing in today's world, postindustrial world, is the human being's attention and how to get it.

You feel what you're focused on.