Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

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.

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

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot.