If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.
Animation isn’t the illusion of life; it is life.
All of you here have one hundred thousand bad drawings in you. The sooner you get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone.
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
An animator is an actor with a pencil.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
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.
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
You can’t force inspiration. It’s like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.
The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.
Animation means to invoke life, not to imitate it.
We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
You do not ‘suffer’ if you decide ‘that’s the way it is’ rather than ‘why is it this way?’
I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.