When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.

Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.

It seems after the disaster many good things and blessings happen,.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

I have a weird thing - if I can't see where all the walls in my house are, I get a little bit freaked out. I think New York has Stockholm Syndrome'd my sense of space and what a house should be.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess.

There's so much stuff going on behind the cameras. Sometimes people think these things are done certain ways and when you watch that you see how hard and down and dirty it was.

The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

Sanctification is not regeneration.

You will free yourself from the cumbersome impossibilities of needing to control the world, your friends, your mate, your children.

Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.