“I wasn’t trying to be Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley or anything like that, but I felt that I needed to learn exactly what they were doing as at least a platform to start to have the dexterity to create within those things. And in those days we were all...
“What fulfills me about writing is getting stuff out. I want to say something, I want to tell people something. I want to tell. A story that amuses people, that engages people, and that teaches people something about themselves and something about the world, and...
“I’m not making art to become famous. I’m not making art to create a masterpiece that’s going to stun the world. I’m creating art because it makes me happy. That was the number one thing that I had to realize and then practice was because...
“I love meeting people from all over the world. I love it. I love it when we’re getting close to the festival and I’m exhausted and you think, “Oh God, I’m ready to get it over with.” But then you have thousands of people coming,...
“I learned a great deal from Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. I learned from them that cartoons can be as visually amazing as a Bob Clampett cartoon, but they also can be verbally clever, like the best of the Yogis and the Hucks. I really, ultimately, when I was...
