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.

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

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation. I let the part of me that is Bugs come to the surface, knowing, with regret, that I can never match his marvelous confidence.

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

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

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.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.