I love Adult Swim. They give you so much artistic freedom.
Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.
'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.
I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.
As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
I love animation, I really do, but I don't do it for the children.
I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.
I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
Very few people view stop motion the way we do. We really try to use it - and animation generally - as a powerful visual medium by which you can tell virtually any kind of story in any genre.
It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.
The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
