John Kricfalusi Quotes

• I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.

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  Ambition, Thinking, America

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• Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.

  John Kricfalusi

  Eye, People, Flying

  "Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-century Cinema". Book by Wheeler W. Dixon, 2001.

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• To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

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  Real, Looks, Alive

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• 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.

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  Character, Ideas, Stories

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• Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

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  Kids, Funny Things, Cartoon

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• From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

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  School, Artist, Years

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• 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.

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  Art, Teaching, Reading

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

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  Kids, Thinking, Long

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• 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.

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  Thinking, People, Animation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

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  Inspiration, Character, Creating

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

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  Cartoon, Wonder, Found

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• One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

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  Jobs, Editors, Voice

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

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  Character, Tvs, Liquor

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• There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.

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  People, Talent, Screwed Up

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• 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.

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  Reading, Giving, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What's beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.

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  Beautiful, Crazy, Laughing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

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  Artist, Cartoon

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

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  Important, Inspired, Animation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

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  Girl, Sexy, Animal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

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  Running, Humor, Cartoon

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• I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.

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  Hate, Humor, Style

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• 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.

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  Vision, Compromise, Modern

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

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  Artist, Get Better, Age

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• The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

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  Illustration, Style, Different

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• 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.

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  Jealous, Writing, Department

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