The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

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.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

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

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

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