One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

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.

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

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.

Acting is kind of brutal.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.