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" I'm a writer who just happens to draw. "
Matt Groening
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" I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV. "
Matt Groening
Way
Media
Watch
" I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe. "
Matt Groening
Heart
People
Show
" The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own. "
Matt Groening
Great
Culture
You
" 'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox. "
Matt Groening
Fox
Success
Creative
" On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task. "
Matt Groening
Try
Task
Say
" Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories. "
Matt Groening
Funny
Sometimes
Wild
" Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention. "
Matt Groening
TV Shows
Most
Reward
" I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction. "
Matt Groening
Fiction
Always
The Simpsons
" I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top. "
Matt Groening
Top
Us
Want
" I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case. "
Matt Groening
You
American
Family
" We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.' "
Matt Groening
Doctor
Science
Star
" Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!' "
Matt Groening
Solution
People
Education
" I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists. "
Matt Groening
Love
Love Is
Relationship
" I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time. "
Matt Groening
Judge
Happy
Time
" I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance. "
Matt Groening
Reading
Thought
Future
" I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf. "
Matt Groening
Tired
Focus
Eyes
" One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor. "
Matt Groening
Humor
Great
You
" Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. "
Matt Groening
Love
Torture
Emotional
" I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.' "
Matt Groening
Life
Watching
Know
" I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun. "
Matt Groening
Be Careful
Gun
Got
" I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.' "
Matt Groening
Say
Look
Television
" I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy. "
Matt Groening
My Life
Think
Crazy
" I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun. "
Matt Groening
Away
First
Fun
" It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have. "
Matt Groening
Listen
Hard
More
" I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great. "
Matt Groening
Great
Pretty
Pinball
" I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something. "
Matt Groening
Sorry
People
Ask
" You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it. "
Matt Groening
About
Whine
Got
" 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious. "
Matt Groening
Memories
Look
Down
" With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture. "
Matt Groening
Picture
Loneliness
Thought
" I have less to do with 'The Simpsons' every season, but I stick my nose in here and there. Basically, it's just trying to keep the characters consistent and making sure the show has a soul. "
Matt Groening
Soul
Show
Season