Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

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

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

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

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

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.’