“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.”

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.