A biography for Genndy Tartakovskyhasn’t been written yet.
“I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.”
“Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.”
“Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.”
“I always refer to 'Blazing Saddles' or 'Young Frankenstein' as very much the kind of humor that I like to do.”
“There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.”
“I read comics because of the art.”
“I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.”
“I'm not as articulate as I'd wanna be.”
“For me, CG tends to feel watered down and it becomes cold because it's so perfect.”
“I was thirty when I did 'Jack.'”
“I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics.”
“Animation is my love, but I think there's definitely room in live-action. I mean, 'Iron Man 2' was fun, and I got to see that world.”
“I mean, for sure, from my history, I have an extreme fondness for 2D. I think it feels very hand-crafted, and you see the artist's personal touch. I think something about CG makes it a bit more sterile.”
“Going as far back as 'Dexter's Lab,' we've always had these sequences with no dialogue. The interesting thing is those sequences got the biggest reactions.”
“I try not to be in my head too much, I just try to do what feels right.”
“For me, I rarely go and see 3D movies because I feel like, when you're wearing glasses, you're aware that you're in the theatre. And the whole thing for me with the movie experience is to be lost in the movie.”
“The magic of 'Jack' is that it's unique, there's not a lot of stuff like it.”
“I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?'”
“With features, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on production and marketing, so everybody's panicked because you literally have an opening weekend to succeed.”
“Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.”