Walter Lantz Quotes

United States, Cartoonist
April 27, 1899 – March, 22, 1994.

Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, director and actor best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

Also known as Animator, Film Producer, Director, Actor

I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.

Walter Lantz
- Cartoonist
- Bucks
The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.

Walter Lantz
- Office
- Meetings
- Scripts

I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they still play and why they play so well in foreign countries. Country Cartoon Age Certain Entertaining Play Stills Wells Brackets Foreign Countries

Walter Lantz