If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work