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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In those days, boxing was very glamorous and romantic. You listened to fights on the radio, and a good announcer made it seem like a contest between gladiators.

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

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

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

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.

It's easier to run a revolution than a government.

You need only examine your present situation to discover unlimited resources and opportunities.

As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit... as I believe in, based on my philosophy.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.