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"There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."

"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."

"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."

"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
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"If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high."

"I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting."

"One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director."

"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then."

"You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind."

"In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better."

"The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other."

"I'll let you in on a secret: I can't stand Jay Ward. I hate being compared to Rocky and Bullwinkle. It's just a different style of humor."
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