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.

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

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

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

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in.

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.