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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."

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A.E. Samaan

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

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"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

"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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A.E. Samaan

"Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user."

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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
"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."

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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."

Art

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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."

Time

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Craig McCracken
"There's a lot you can do without words."

Communication

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Craig McCracken
"First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones."

Dogs

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Craig McCracken
"The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene."

Action

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