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

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.

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.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without getting it dirty." -Kuchiki Rukia

I know formidable women, dozens of them, women who fight and who win... Noble women. Heroic ones.

I said to the players before the start, 'Just go out and give it 100 per cent. I am not asking for any more than that'.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

The job of the photographer, in my view, is not to catalogue indisputable fact but to try to be coherent about intuition and hope. This is not to say that he is unconcerned with the truth.

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.