“For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it. The rest of it is just guiding everybody on that one path. But, figuring out the path is the difficult part.”

Russian-American animator, screenwriter, film producer, and director

Genndy Tartakovsky is a Russian-American animator, screenwriter, film producer, and director. He is best known as the creator of Dexter’s Laboratory, and has also shaped several other animated series across television and film. He developed Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, and Unicorn: Warriors Eternal for Cartoon Network. He also created the Adult Swim series Primal, directed the first three Hotel Transylvania films, wrote the fourth, and directed Sony Pictures Animation’s first adult animated film, Fixed.