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

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

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.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

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.