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" I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it. "
Seth MacFarlane
Good
Art
Bad
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" I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go. "
Seth MacFarlane
Pretty
Artist
Business
" Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college. "
Seth MacFarlane
Family
New
Sick
" The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television. "
Seth MacFarlane
Television
Doors
You
" Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition. "
Seth MacFarlane
Believe
You
Care
" With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. "
Seth MacFarlane
Takes
Life
Own
" People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner. "
Seth MacFarlane
Dinner
Internet
World
" I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters. "
Seth MacFarlane
Two
Drawing
First
" I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing. "
Seth MacFarlane
Creative
Good
Funny
" There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.' "
Seth MacFarlane
Weather
Always
Listen
" There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have. "
Seth MacFarlane
Better
You
Work
" I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal. "
Seth MacFarlane
Career
End
You
" I'll tell you what I think is not okay. Have you ever seen that show on MSNBC, 'Lockup?' It's a reality show that takes place inside a prison. Do the prisoners have to sign release forms? Or do they have to be on it whether they like it or not? "
Seth MacFarlane
You
Reality
Prison
" I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America. "
Seth MacFarlane
Big
America
Time
" You would not want me on your football team. "
Seth MacFarlane
Want
You
Football
" Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it. "
Seth MacFarlane
Big Fan
Big
Much
" The only problem is time. "
Seth MacFarlane
Time
Problem
Only
" The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science. "
Seth MacFarlane
Sleep
Science
Me
" You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty. "
Seth MacFarlane
Nasty
Sake
Being
" When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. "
Seth MacFarlane
Mind
Job
Places
" The way Disney characters move, they're very kind of slow and fluid and flowing; one pose kind of eases into the next. If you look at a show like 'The Simpsons' and subsequently a show like 'Family Guy' - the characters will jerk from pose to pose a lot, a bit more snappy. Which sort of goes along with the writing tone of the show. "
Seth MacFarlane
Writing
Slow
You
" I'm bad at golf. "
Seth MacFarlane
Golf
Bad
" You gotta keep the funny intact. "
Seth MacFarlane
Intact
Funny
Gotta
" Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment. "
Seth MacFarlane
Science
Become
Embarrassment
" I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis. "
Seth MacFarlane
Lot
Still
Daily
" Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup. "
Seth MacFarlane
New
Special
Time
" The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget. "
Seth MacFarlane
Show
Budget
Money
" The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing. "
Seth MacFarlane
You
Over
Doing
" If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify. "
Seth MacFarlane
Hard
Being
Being Funny
" I was a film major with a concentration in animation. "
Seth MacFarlane
Animation
Major
Film
" Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves. "
Seth MacFarlane
Having
Fox
Shots