Quote

It's grown into a personal relationship, yeah. I'm crazy about Jerry. I think he's a unique character.

Jerry didn't know he wanted to get married until he was married.

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing.

I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

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

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.