I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

If you can think about it, you can create it.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

I just devoured all of his [Buster Keaton’s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. He’s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just so…sophisticated, even when you watch it today.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.