Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

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

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

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?