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"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."
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"I make movies I want to see."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"All I do is go to the movies."
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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"There's an electrical thing about movies."
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"I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'"
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"Do you remember a scene with Ryan and Ali playing in the snow? Well, that was improvised."
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"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
Business
"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
Idea
"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
Rejection
"Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all."
Work
"What about Mickey Mouse? Disney tried very hard to make him a star. But Mickey Mouse is more of a symbol than a real character."
Character
"I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons."
Life
"Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race."
Winning
"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."
Movies
"High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances."
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"I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day."
Day
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