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.
John KricfalusiModern animated movies are the products not of anyoneโs individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.
John KricfalusiThe storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.
John KricfalusiThere are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.
John Kricfalusi