Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.

It is OK to say 'no'.It is OK to say 'I will think about it'.It is OK to say 'I will try'.It is NOT OK to make promises you cannot keep.

Water liked to be free. Given time, water could overcome any barrier, and it hated to be trapped, just like Percy.

I know less than you thought, but more than you realize.

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Economy is essential to all good art.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Be guided by the stars which you place well on the canopy of your night sky.

Teaching is so rewarding because when you see the look on student's faces when they get it, when you're able to excite them about what you're excited about; it's so rewarding, and it's so much fun.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.