"It is as though the first creature to emerge from the primeval slime was Albert Einstein; and the second was an amoeba, because after McCay's animation it took his followers nearly twenty years to find out how he did it. The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first."
"Bob, all this should be your father's."
— Walt Disney to McCay's son Robert
"Any idiot that wants to make a couple thousand drawings for ten feet of film is welcome to join the club."
—McKay on why he never patented his key framing technique
