John Kricfalusi

“There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.”

“I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor.”

“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.”

“Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.”

“Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.”

“To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.”

“I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.”

“The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.”

“I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.”

“Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.”

“All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.”

“In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.”

“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.”

“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.”