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.

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

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

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

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

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