With animation because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules. Matt Groening More Quotes by Matt Groening More Quotes From Matt Groening I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.' Matt Groening later-in-life done kids I like all of the early relationship strips that were collected in 'Love Is Hell,' where I pretended to be an expert in relationships and did comics like 'The Nine Types of Boyfriends,' 'Sixteen Ways to End a Relationship,' 'Twenty-Four Things Not to Say in Bed,' and other arbitrarily numbered lists. Matt Groening bed twenties love-is I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top. Matt Groening goes-on want I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case. Matt Groening family-guy dad thinking I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf. Matt Groening tired eye thinking I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe. Matt Groening heart people thinking I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy. Matt Groening crazy cartoon thinking 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 Garfield or something. Matt Groening party sorry people 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing. Matt Groening family-guy cartoon swim 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!' Matt Groening banging matter people 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 funny stuff. Matt Groening stuff writing funny I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun. Matt Groening careful be-careful gun 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. Matt Groening character funny moving Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing. Matt Groening alternatives trying Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked. Matt Groening cartoon writing thinking Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career. Matt Groening careers writing two Don't have a cow, man. Matt Groening cows men Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to. Matt Groening jokes appreciate people I also found child's play - stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy - was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult. Matt Groening adults play children I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction. Matt Groening real fiction
