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.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

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?

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

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

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.