To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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