Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

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

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

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

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.