With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.