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.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

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 beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What's beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.

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 story context.

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

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. They don't teach you anything.

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

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

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

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

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

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.

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

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

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 covered by the director.