When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.