I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.