What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.