“I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.”

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.