The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.

In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Fog is about the color of the insides of an old split wet summer cottage mattress; smog is the color and consistency of a wet potato chip soaked in a motorman’s glove.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.