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" My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings. "

John Kricfalusi

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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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" 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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" 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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" You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low. "

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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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" 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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" You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind. "

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" Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today. "

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" Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then. "

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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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" 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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" 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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