John Kricfalusi Quotes

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

My style is very strong poses and expressions.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don't think of whoever the 200 writers are.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What's beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.