An animator is an actor with a pencil.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

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

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.