My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

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

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.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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

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.