"Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable–this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience's opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity."

“The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.”

“As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move — it's a bunch of drawings of movement.”

“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he's the person who opens a door funny.”

“Everything on Saturday morning moves alike—that's one of the reasons it's not animation. The drawings are different, but everybody acts the same way, their feet move the same way, and everybody runs the same way. It doesn't matter whether it's an alligator or a man or a baby or anything, they all move the same.”

“The best way, of course, to understand the animator is to see that he parallels the actor. He has the same responsibility a fine actor has. Even the people who write about animation just don't seem to understand that when you have a drawing, you don't have a character. "This is the first Bugs Bunny" has no meaning. It's how Bugs came to stand and move and act, and what his feelings were, and his thoughts, and what kind of personality he was. That developed over a period of time. And you need fine animators to do that.”

“hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.”