Craig McCracken Quotes

• Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

  Craig McCracken

  Mean, Differences, People

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 02, 2002.

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• There's a lot you can do without words.

  Craig McCracken

  Can Do

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 2, 2002.

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• The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

  Craig McCracken

  Moving, Mind, Trying

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 2, 2002.

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• The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

  Craig McCracken

  Jobs, Writing, Artist

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• But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

  Craig McCracken

  Missing, Portfolios, Seems

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• I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

  Craig McCracken

  People, Mouths, Film

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. June 2002.

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• I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

  Craig McCracken

  Character, Toys, Geek

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• It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

  Craig McCracken

  Talking, Giving, Needs

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 2, 2002.

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• For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

  Craig McCracken

  Artist, Long, Teens

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• I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

  Craig McCracken

  Artist, Drawing

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• I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

  Craig McCracken

  Dog, Stupid

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• Im always thinking about what I might want to do next, but theres still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.

  Craig McCracken

  Thinking, Want, Might

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• Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

  Craig McCracken

  Approved, Screens

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• Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

  Craig McCracken

  Boards, Wigs, Rooms

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• Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.

  Craig McCracken

  Creative, Aspect, Shows

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• First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexters Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.

  Craig McCracken

  Girl, Dog, Stupid

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