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"Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue."
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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked."
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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
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"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
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"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in."
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"We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will."
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"The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out."
Love
"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
Age
"Each character represented a trait that resides in me."
Character
"Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter."
Art
"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."
Business
"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
Work
"If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings."
Character
"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
Art
"If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth."
Character design
"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do."
Job
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