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William Hanna

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[Wikipedia] William Denby Hanna was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna providing the vocal effects for Tom and Jerry's title characters.

Quotes by William Hanna · Page 2

Today's youngster has a more highly developed mind, and if you start to play down to them, you lose them.

Lose

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The early years of Hanna-Barbera were more fun than the later ones. I was working more in the creative areas of timing…

Direction

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Cartoons ran into trouble when they became too much like real life images. Cartoons had become poor imitations of the real thing.

Cartoons

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The concept of the characters in animal skins and us satirizing modern technology made it fun. But the voices we cast and…

Animal

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I think anything created today can be said to be a ripoff. It's hard to find anything original any more.

Find

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You know that Yogi and Huckleberry didn't just belong to the kids. Grownups know all about our animal friends.

About

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We work in vertical and horizontal planes. We avoid depth characteristics as much as possible. This reduces the number of pictures in…

Avoid

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It takes four people to lay out the 'Flintstones.'

Four

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In 'Tom and Jerry,' there was hardly any dialogue at all. It was all action. It required a great many drawings to…

Action

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I was attracted to Joe right away. He was and is one of the greatest cartoon artists I've ever met. I was…

Art

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We're delighted that Freddie Flintstone and his friends have made such a hit. The comedy is not the old cartoon slapstick. Most…

Comedy

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You can compare Fred and Barney Rubble with Gleason and Carney.

Barney

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We became very good in developing comical sight gags when we made 'The Flintstones.'

Developing

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When we were at MGM, we never did much about merchandise tie-ups There were too many executives and lawyers to go through.

About

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Greatest thing in our partnership is the sharing of responsibility; if one of us has to go away, we always know someone…

Always

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I think 'The Simpsons' is in the right time slot because it's not a show for kids. It's too vulgar. And 'Ren…

I think

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I used to watch 'The Honeymooners' and laughed so much I'd fog up the inside of the lenses of my glasses.

Fog

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