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.
All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.
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.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
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.
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.
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.
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.
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.