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.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

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

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

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

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.