John Kricfalusi quotes

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads. (John Kricfalusi)
Forget the takes. Takes are cheap shots. Anyone can do a goddamn take. [...] You don't have to be a genius to draw a take. It's emotions- the full range of emotions- that works in Clampett's cartoons. View quote
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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. View quote
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From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now. View quote
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The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style. View quote
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My style is very strong poses and expressions. View quote
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The main thing missing from cartoons is today that old cartoons were cartoony. They did things you can't do in any other medium. Today's cartoons are very conservative and are more like live action. The characters look the same in every frame of the damn cartoon. The old cartoons squashed, stretched, and did crazy expressions. They were imaginative and crazy. A lot of cartoons aren't imaginative, they just say things. It might as well be radio. There is no point in having anything to look at in modern cartoons. But you can't say that about every cartoon. Genndy Tartakovsky's cartoons are beautiful. The closest thing now to what I'm saying is SpongeBob but even that doesn't go very far. It's like a conservative version of Ren & Stimpy. View quote
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There's tons of people with talent; it's the system that's all screwed up. View quote
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Illustration from the late-1900s up through the middle of the 20th century was absolutely amazing. In general, American culture was at its highest skill wise in every aspect of human life in the 1940s. It's all been downhill since then. You just open an old magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then. View quote
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Let me make this clear: Ren & Stimpy really is a children's show. It was made for kids. I'm not putting anything in there that I don't think a kid can watch, or should watch. It's completely a kid's show. View quote
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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 out of some story context. (John Kricfalusi)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad. View quote
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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 be covered by the director. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained. View quote
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In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. View quote
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I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting. View quote
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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 look like they were that way on purpose. View quote
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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. They don't teach you anything. (John Kricfalusi)
George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already. View quote
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All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get. View quote
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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 of humor. View quote
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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 networks run their lives? View quote
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