Every great artist must begin by learning to draw with the single line, and my advice to young animators is to learn how to live with that razor-sharp instrument or art. An artist who comes to me with eight or ten good drawings of the human figure in simple lines has a good chance of being hired. But I will tell the artist who comes with a bunch of drawings of Bugs Bunny to go back and learn how to draw the human body. An artist who knows that can learn how to draw ANYTHING, including Bugs Bunny.

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

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

If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.

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

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

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.