I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

With an animated show you can make a banana purple. You can put three hats on a cowboy. That would require several days of stitching, in live-action, that you wouldn't be able to afford. I mean, you can just do tons and tons and tons.

When you are in the 8 o'clock position, you can either be a cultural phenomenon, or you're endangered. It's a tough time slot.

I was playing the game where I was going to be a great TV or film writer some day and there was nothing else that I thought about, including other people.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.