Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character.
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.
When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.
I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall.
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.
I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.
You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
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.
Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.
Faced with the choice of enduring a bad toothache or going to the dentist, we generally tried to ride out the bad tooth.
I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.