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..

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

I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in..

The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor..

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..

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

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 ou….

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

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..

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter..

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

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..

I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall..

Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the dot..

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances..

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience..

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

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospita….

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