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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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