A biography for Butch Hartmanhasn’t been written yet.
“There's been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.”
“I think it's funny when parents are idiots.”
“When we grew up, we had three channels on television and only one day of cartoons and if you missed it, you missed it.”
“I think I'm fascinated with empowering the shy kids.”
“I wanted to do a show with magic so I wouldn't have to worry about coming up with ideas, and sometimes that's the problem.”
“All I ever wanted to do was draw.”
“I owe a lot to 'SpongeBob.'”
“Fairly OddParents' is one of those rare shows that really resonated with people beyond demographics.”
“I like to take kids to places they can't get to in real life.”
“I used to sit in front of the TV and draw the Flintstones as fast as I could.”
“I've been drawing since about age 5. In kindergarten I drew a picture of my teacher and she loved it! Made a big fuss over me. That's when I realized that, if I drew cool pictures, I could get attention from adults. From that point on I was an attention freak!”
“Bunsen' is one of the best things I've been able to do. I'm so excited about it. Not only because of the awesome characters, but because of the incredible writing our team is doing. I think it combines the best traits of all my previous stuff and even adds a bit of extra weirdness here and there too.”
“You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.”
“Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.”
“It's always been tough to imagine the T.U.F.F. Puppy animal gang living next to Danny Phantom.”
“Whereas 'OddParents' was slam-bam and silly all the way through, 'Danny Phantom' has more of a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy comic book feel.”
“My shows are frenetic and fast-paced.”
“When you're a kid, helping an old lady across the street is kind of cute. But when you're an adult, it's just plain creepy.”
“I always try to make/produce shows that can be viewed by the entire family. I never want to intentionally make anything that I will be embarrassed by or that people of any age can't watch.”
“I've got a cool sketchbook that I am selling on Amazon.”