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" I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama. "

Seth MacFarlane

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" The resistance to science is idiotic. "

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" 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. "

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" I was a film major with a concentration in animation. "

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" With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. "

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" If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical. "

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" If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify. "

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" I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis. "

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" Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss. "

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" 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. "

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" The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done. "

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" There was no joke I could make that was too offensive. I can actually remember at least one time where my mother told me something that, I was like, 'whoa!' "

Seth MacFarlane

" 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

" When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. "

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" Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day. "

Seth MacFarlane

" The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget. "

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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

" The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny. "

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" 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. "

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" The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now. "

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" The only problem is time. "

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" 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

" What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes. "

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" I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens. "

Seth MacFarlane

" There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith. "

Seth MacFarlane

" 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

" There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing. "

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" At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and wanted to do my own stuff. You know, towards the end of college I had actually planned to go to the Boston Conservatory of Music for musical theater. "

Seth MacFarlane

" 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. "

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" I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town. "

Seth MacFarlane

" We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy'. If something was horribly offensive and shocking, we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny. "

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