"At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks… until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in…"

"I don't make pictures just to make money. I make money to make more pictures."

"I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators — a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music — a study of rhythm, …"

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers."