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Dave Rowntree

"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."

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"Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea."

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"There's this idea that it has to be made in London. But we've got everything up here, and if you've got comics who are gifted because of where they're from, you shouldn't drag them away from that natural resource."

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"The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea."

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"'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else."

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"Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!"

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Amber Hurdle

"He looked at the silver pocketknife in his hand. An idea came to him " possibly the stupidest, craziest idea he'd had since he thought, Hey, I'll get Percy to swim in the River Styx! He'll love me for that!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does."

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"Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long."
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"I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny."
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