What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.

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

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

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.

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

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

Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.