Down Quote by Butch Hartman

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

— Kenan Thompson

People ask me, 'Why are you doing a show on Showtime?' Because I'll do anything really, I don't really care, I'll do a show…

— Mary-Louise Parker

Like any good business, I think Nickelodeon waits to see results.

— Butch Hartman

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

— Gary Larson

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

— Jeff Smith

I used to draw cartoons. I'd just show them to some of my friends, expecting that they were going to appreciate them, that they…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

Mike and I figured out a lot about the world, characters and story in the initial two weeks between creating 'Avatar' and pitching it…

— Bryan Konietzko

I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes…

— Rich Brian

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation…

— Craig McCracken

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to…

— Michael Leunig

I don't really like sketch shows and panel shows. I just can't get my head round them.

— Lee Evans

I did cartoons for four high school publications and then and there decided I wanted to spend my life at the drawing board.

— Bil Keane