I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some sto….

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions..

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad..

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw..

My style is very strong poses and expressions..

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by mem….

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor..

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening..

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up..

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now..

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to ….

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads..

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting..

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic..

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. Th….

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer giv….

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant..

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be cov….

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained..

I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it b….

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds loo….