Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

My style is very strong poses and expressions.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

Peaceful society, peaceful world.

I think of drug dealers like I think of my father— never really there when you want them to be.

The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

There must be a mirror to show the soul to itself before the soul can begin to gather its courage.

I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.