It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.
If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.
I'm primarily just an investor.
In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.
The 'economy' became a god such as never before, and a happy, successful society was one that could please this god - sometimes by sacrificing beautiful things - to keep the deity from getting angry and harming the people by withdrawing favours.
The only risk of failure is promotion.
And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.
I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
As a cartoonist, I am not interested in defending the dominant, the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed because such groups are usually not in need of advocacy, moral support or sympathetic understanding; they have already organised sufficient publicity for themselves and prosecute their points of view with great efficiency.
At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.
The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.
On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.
In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.