A biography for Seth MacFarlanehasn’t been written yet.
“I'm big on the importance of science, particularly right now at this point in time when there's sort of a systematic rejection of science by a lot of people in America.”
“On a certain day, I will tweet five times, and then I'll go four days without tweeting at all. It really depends on what time allows. Twitter, priority-wise, has to come after the work is done.”
“There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.”
“If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.”
“If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.”
“I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.”
“The only problem is time.”
“I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.”
“Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.”
“I was a film major with a concentration in animation.”
“The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.”
“I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.”
“I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.”
“You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.”
“When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.”
“The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.”
“I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.”
“I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode Island/Massachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.”
“There are times when I'm under the weather and the corporate machine tries to put me in the recording booth anyway. It's always up to me to say, 'Guys, listen to me, listen to what I sound like. I'm not myself.'”
“You gotta keep the funny intact.”