When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.

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.

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

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.