Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years.

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 hate fishing, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to hike when you can get in the car and drive.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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

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

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.