My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

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

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

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

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.