Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

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

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Dell is to a degree in the penalty box because expectations and probable results have gotten ratcheted down.

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.