I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Girls bored me, they still do. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.