A biography for Genndy Tartakovskyhasn’t been written yet.
“I love 'Jack' as one of my creations and would never want to change it from what it was supposed to be. There was no reason to reinvent.”
“Being funny is very complex.”
“Besides kind of like the Wes Anderson, or, of course, a lot of the European movies, most everybody in the States, the big studios, make pretty much the same film. And we're kind of held to Pixar standards, or Disney standards, as it's kind of always been in the animation industry.”
“In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.”
“I don't like to be part of the cattle. I like to just do my own thing.”
“Going from 'Dexter' to 'Powerpuff,' there was a lot of dialogue, there was a lot of... you know, we did action, of course, but I was getting burned out on the words, and both shows had this big, thick black outline.”
“Through the years, I've developed a style or a language that I like, even when it applies to action. All my action principles are very similar to my cartoony principles, because all the poses want to be really strong.”
“As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead.”
“Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.”
“For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.”
“I'm very in the now; I don't like to look back a lot.”
“You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.”
“I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids.”
“I've always thought that maybe I need to do a live-action movie, have it make a lot of money, and then come back and have a bigger budget for animation and do more with that.”
“'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.”
“I remember arguing with my dad to let me dress up to go to a Halloween party in seventh grade, but I never in my childhood went trick-or-treating.”
“I grew up in the '70s, early '80s as a kid, and when we first immigrated to this country I went to a 7-Eleven and for the first time in my life I saw... back in the day they had this little spinning comic book rack, and there were comic books and I was basically drawn to them.”
“There were so many amazing comic books. Like I was around for the original Frank Miller/Chris Claremont 'Wolverine' miniseries.”
“I've always been in love with samurais, that kind of classic idea about a hero who has a sword with an intense skill and is very stoic and doesn't talk much.”
“Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.”