Joseph Barbera

Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

My marriage had been impulsive. That marriage should have been short-lived instead of the 23 years it spanned.

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

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

Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners.

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

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 our children.

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.

I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.