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

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

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