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

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

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

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.

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.

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.