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

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.

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.

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.

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