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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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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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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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"It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong."
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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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"You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way."
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"Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you."
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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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"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now."
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"I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife."
Father
"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
Comedy
"Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me."
Mother
"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."
Humor
"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."
Home
"I'd sleep under a Vermeer."
Sleep
"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving."
People
"I have a lot of faith in people."
Faith
"When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater."
Success
"Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music."
Music
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