Joe Murray Quotes

• When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

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• When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

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• We’re the real estate industry – not the manufacturers.

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• The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

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• Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

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• Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

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• Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

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• Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the “Normal” environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

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• I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

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• I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas “are” funny. I’m assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

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• I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

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• I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

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• Anyone who knows me, knows I don’t walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.

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• Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.

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Joe Murray (14)

Birth:	3rd May, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Animator, Creator, Illustrator, Screenwriter, Television Producer, Voice Artist

About

Joseph David "Joe" Murray was born in San Jose, California, USA. He is an American animator, screenwriter, illustrator, TV producer and voice actor, best known as the creator of the Nickelodeon animated series Rocko's Modern Life (also executive producer) and the Cartoon Network animated series Camp Lazlo (also executive producer). He was a political cartoonist for a newspaper, often targeting then-President Jimmy Carter. In 1981 at age 20, he founded his independent illustration production company, Joe Murray Studios. Later in 1992, he created his first animated color film, My Dog Zero. He is the winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards for Camp Lazlo and Outstanding Animated Program for the TV film Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo?. He also voiced Ralph Bighead in "I Have No Son" and "Wacky Delly". He is currently working on a new TV show, Luna Around the World, slated to be broadcast by PBS Kids in early 2018.

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