Quotes by John Kricfalusi - Page 1

My style is very strong poses and expressions.
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Expression
Strong
Style
Expressions
Poses
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Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.
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Today People Who
Draw
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Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.
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Colors
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Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.
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Blanc
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Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
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Artist
Cartoonist
Illustrators
Cartoonists
Trained
Untrained
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There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.
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People
Screwed Up
Talent
Screwed
Tons
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My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.
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Audience
Human Beings
Beings
Cartoons
Intended
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All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
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Age
Artist
Get Better
Draw
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The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
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Different
Generic
Illustration
Style
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I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.
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Ambition
America
Thinking
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Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.
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Eye
Flying
People
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I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.
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Kids
Long
Thinking
Love Long Will
Cartoons
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As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
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Cartoon
Found
Industry
Wonder
No Wonder
Realized
Soon
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George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
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Amazed
Character
Episodes
Liquor
Tvs
George
Richest
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In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
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Cinematography
Old Movie
Thousand
Today
Writing
Old Movies
Thousand Times
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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.
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Kids
Aim
Cartoonist
Family Guy
Today
Wanting
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There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.
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Artist
Cartoon
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Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.
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Funny
Kids
Cartoon
Funny Things
Stories
Visual
Follow
Happening
Hell Is
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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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Humor
Hate
Secret
Style
Compared
Jay
Rocky
Ward
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Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.
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Girl
Animal
Sexy
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The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
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Character
Creating
Flash
Inspiration
Instant
Liquor
George
Planted
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From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
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Artist
Hiring
Retarded
School
Years
Ridiculously
Schools
Worse
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To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.
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Alive
Looks
Real
Real Life
Symmetrical
Organic
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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.
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Jealous
Department
Layout
Writing
Storyboard
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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.
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Alive
Touch
Draw
Illustrations
Magazine
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If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.
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Film
Giving
Reading
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I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
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Character
Evolve
Ideas
Stories
Accident
Context
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You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.
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Cartoonist
Family Guy
Guy
Standards
Draw
Extremely
Low
Professional
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Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
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Running
Humor
Cartoon
Complaining
Just Do It
Money Always Your
Anymore
Cartoons
Run
Networks
Joe
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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.
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Jobs
Covered
Editors
Records
Sheets
Voice
Editor
Storyboard
Voices
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Modern animated movies are the products not of anyone’s individual vision, but rather a scattered accumulation of compromises made out of fear by members of large committees.
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Compromise
Modern
Vision
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Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.
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Art
Arithmetic
Reading
Teach
Teaching
Aspects
Cultural
Schools
Worse
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I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.
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Cool
Artist
Backgrounds
Graphic
Painting
Perspective
Purpose
Style
Artists
Developed
Draw
Influenced
Styles
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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.
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Cartoon
Color
Damn
Green
Purple
Theory
Buy
Complete
Pink
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I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to be. When people think of The Simpsons, they think of Matt Groening. They don't think of whoever the 200 writers are.
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Animation
People
Thinking
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I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What's beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening.
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Beautiful
Crazy
Laughing
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When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.
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Animation
Important
Inspired
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