Latest Seth MacFarlane Quotes from Interviews

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• Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Want, Blunt

  Source: variety.com

• I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Religious, Years, Two

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 26, 2005.

• When astrology was conceived, all of the celestial bodies were in different places. So if you're a Sagittarius now, I guess you would have been a Capricorn 2,000 years ago.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Astrology, Years, Different

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I distrust all television doctors.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Doctors, Television, Distrust

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I tend to lean more towards the Westerns of the 40s and 50s as opposed to the 60s and 70s. They get a little too drab for me when you get into the Spaghetti Western era. I love the John Ford movies. I love the music. I love the scope.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Littles, Eras, Spaghetti

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

• I don't gravitate toward any particular genre. I like to do things that interest me, regardless of genre. I've had a blast doing Cosmos, and I'm said that it's coming to an end. I would like to do something else like that.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Cosmos, Ends, Coming To An End

  Source: collider.com

• From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Writing, Media, Next Week

  Source: collider.com

• There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Two, Voice

  Source: collider.com

• Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Children, Acting, Adults

  Source: screenrant.com

• [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Thinking, Self, Fcc

  Source: screenrant.com

• Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Laughing, Sake, Shock

  Source: collider.com

• Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Character, Formulas, Wells

  Source: collider.com

• Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Media, Outrage, Presses

  Source: collider.com

• You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Stories, Firsts, Break

  Source: collider.com