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

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

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.

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 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.