Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

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

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

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.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.