A biography for Genndy Tartakovskyhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it.”
“I'm super comfortable with TV, especially in my situation where I pretty much have 100% freedom. That's the ideal, and I've been fortunate in TV to have pretty much everything I've done be at least somewhat successful.”
“I have been very fortunate for the most part of my career when it comes to support and trust.”
“The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.”
“There was a show I loved as a kid: 'The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.'”
“I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.”
“It makes things very easy when the people you are working for have trust and believe in you and actually really like and respect your work.”
“Jim Gaffigan is someone I've always been a fan of.”
“My goal is to always try to make you feel something, whether that's humor or sadness or excitement, and to try to manipulate screen space.”
“I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.”
“To me, the best of 'Jack' is when we have a very good, but small idea, executed to the nines.”
“In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.”
“The whole style of 'Hotel Transylvania' isn't really goofy. Their castle, it's not super tall; it's almost normal sized.”
“I really loved that old UPA stuff, like 'Gerald McBoing-Boing' and 'Mr. Magoo.' They were simple yet effective 'toons that talked to everyone, not just kids.”
“My love of visual sequences stems from live-action films like Sergio Leone westerns, Kurosawa, some '70s action films, Tex Avery, and my general love of animated movement.”
“For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.”
“To me, storytelling is a mystery. Especially when you're directing.”
“You can never guess what a kid's going to find funny - besides, you know, an obvious fart joke here and there.”
“Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.”
“Jack' came from... I had the same dream since I was 10, about the world being destroyed and run by mutants. I'd find a samurai sword, pick up the girl I had a crush on, and we'd go through the land, surviving. That was the initial spark to 'Samurai Jack.'”