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

After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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

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