John Kricfalusi Quotes

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• All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
• As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.
• Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
• I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
• 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…
• There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up.
• I think we are destroying the minds of America and that has been one of my lifelong ambitions.
• 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.…
• 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.
• 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.
• My style is very strong poses and expressions.
• 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.
• The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
• 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.
• 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…

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