An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

You've got a million bad drawings in you; you better get started.

I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.