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Matt Groening

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I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or
3.7 · 22 votes · 27 reads
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I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'
3.9 · 17 votes · 129 reads
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I'm a Writerwho just happens to draw.
3.2 · 48 votes · 72 reads
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I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.
4.1 · 57 votes · 199 reads
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I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
3.7 · 13 votes · 101 reads
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Science and Technology
If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.
4.7 · 33 votes · 171 reads
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In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
4.4 · 18 votes · 75 reads
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It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.
5.0 · 63 votes · 130 reads
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
4.7 · 48 votes · 134 reads
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Virtues
Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.
3.9 · 22 votes · 126 reads
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Feelings
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
4.5 · 10 votes · 86 reads
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Me fail english? Thats unpossible.
4.0 · 64 votes · 162 reads
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Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.
4.4 · 14 votes · 73 reads
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Society
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, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventu
3.2 · 11 votes · 191 reads
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My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'
4.9 · 6 votes · 131 reads
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Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
3.8 · 42 votes · 20 reads
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Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.
4.0 · 14 votes · 150 reads
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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. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.
3.8 · 17 votes · 185 reads
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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, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.
3.6 · 56 votes · 61 reads
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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 I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.
4.7 · 32 votes · 195 reads
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Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!'
4.5 · 7 votes · 152 reads
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Society
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
3.4 · 11 votes · 152 reads
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Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.
3.1 · 28 votes · 59 reads
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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 writers that we've done that before.
3.9 · 55 votes · 14 reads
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Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
3.8 · 50 votes · 100 reads
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Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
3.7 · 39 votes · 122 reads
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The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.
3.9 · 61 votes · 35 reads
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The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny
3.2 · 59 votes · 37 reads
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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, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace
3.1 · 18 votes · 43 reads
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Society
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 I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.
3.4 · 5 votes · 137 reads
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Time
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. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.
3.8 · 5 votes · 117 reads
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Virtues
The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.
4.5 · 58 votes · 8 reads
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The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.
4.2 · 52 votes · 66 reads
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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 do you continue to surprise the audience, but make them good surprises?' Not every surprise is good, but you want to con
4.7 · 54 votes · 92 reads
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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. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
4.8 · 27 votes · 174 reads
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The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.
4.4 · 8 votes · 180 reads
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There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's
4.0 · 53 votes · 33 reads
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We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.
3.1 · 30 votes · 193 reads
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We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
4.1 · 16 votes · 200 reads
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We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
4.5 · 37 votes · 21 reads
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