Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

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.

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.

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.

Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk - I just danced.

When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

Sometimes happiness comes, sometimes sadness, anger, jealousy - you need not make them your problems

If you hide behind the things you don’t want to talk about then you’re going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.