I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.

[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.

Before The Simpsons, I was 4 years old, so I don't know exactly what I was thinking before that.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.