“Jack' came from... I had the same dream since I was 10, about the world being destroyed and run by mutants. I'd find a samurai sword, pick up the girl I had a crush on, and we'd go through the land, surviving. That was the initial spark to 'Samurai Jack.'”

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.