Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

I love the idea of animation just because it removes the actor from the character, and you can be anything. I've been devouring 'Adventure Time' and 'Archer.' I'd love to get my hands dirty on either of those shows.

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.

I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age, but also by the Warner Bros. cartoons, 'Tom and Jerry,' and of course Disney. And also by Fellini's 'Giulietta of the Spirits' and Kurosawa's 'Ran.' And by other American illustrators and painters.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

Working on the 'Ice Age' movies, I'm really proud to be in them.

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of 'Postman Pat.' It has been a joy to do.

When you do animation - well, straightforward animation, although it's not straightforward - the voice for a character or something, they're always singular experiences, really.

I had always loved cartoons, especially 'Bugs Bunny,' and I found I enjoyed making animated films. Even a 30-second commercial involved drawing and painting, storytelling, not to mention actors, music, and sound effects.

If you look at the Disney Villains, I think you'll find that they do have mass appeal in some way, and it usually has to do with a voice quality that also matches very well with the animation.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It's a pre-visual fidelity, and the voice acting is terrible because it's one of our animators doing it. But we could sit there and watch what the scene is supposed to look like while we're doing individual shots.

From the moment we started working on the first 'Wreck-It Ralph,' we knew there were so many possibilities with these characters.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.

Doing an animation is nothing like anything you could ever experience. You get to be a kid again and just play dress up in a movie studio.

It was actually after I saw 'Pinocchio' that I thought I might try and work in that industry in some way.

In my opinion, animation will continue to thrive as long as there are children, parents, television, movies and the need to laugh.

I want to make my own animes.

For characters where, in a comic, I'd avoid using screen tone because it's such a bother, I'd deliberately use it in animation in order to highlight their individual characteristics.