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Craig McCracken

"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Year Two is a critical year for any television show."

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A.E. Samaan

"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."

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A.E. Samaan

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

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A.E. Samaan

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."

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A.E. Samaan

"I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train."

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A.E. Samaan

"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."

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A.E. Samaan

"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."

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A.E. Samaan

"An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think."

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A.E. Samaan

"Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment."

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Craig McCracken
"Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not."

Television

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Craig McCracken
"So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it."

Television

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Craig McCracken
"One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards."

Creativity

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Craig McCracken
"I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile."

Thinking

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Craig McCracken
"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."

Sense

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Craig McCracken
"Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw."

People

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Craig McCracken
"The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked."

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Craig McCracken
"I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs."

Dogs

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Craig McCracken
"We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show."

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Craig McCracken
"For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information."

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