Bob Peterson Quotes

What I love about Goofy is the flesh on his cheeks. You can almost feel it.

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.

Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

Ariel got me into animation. She was the first Disney heroine that really felt alive. She felt like a real young woman.

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

I loved 'Roger Rabbit' growing up.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

I like animation: you can go to work in your pyjamas.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.