An animator is an actor with a pencil.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

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.

When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.