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- One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if…
- A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what…
- You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.
- Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
- 'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
- We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
- Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid…
- I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and…
- I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was…
- My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner,…
- On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny.…
- Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind…
- The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction,…
- The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that…
- The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad.…
- 'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they're growing up and haven't settled down. Every other cartoon show…
- The thing about a cartoon is, you can do whatever you want. The tightrope that we are walking on 'The Simpsons' and 'Futurama' is 'How…
- The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all.…
- One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me,…
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