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

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.

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.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.

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

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