Animation Quote by Matt Groening

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than…

— Dan Castellaneta

Anybody in animation today would be lying if they said they weren't somehow influenced by 'The Simpsons' to a certain degree. Except for the…

— Justin Roiland

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the…

— Matt Groening

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and…

— John Kricfalusi

The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them…

— Matt Groening

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very…

— Matt Groening

I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work…

— Matt Groening

I'll tell you what 'The Simpsons' is really good at. They'll describe something, you don't see it, and it's funnier when you describe it.

— Josh Widdicombe

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often…

— Peter Higgs

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action…

— Eric Andre

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

— Alexei Sayle

Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

— Will Friedle