John Kricfalusi Quotes

• You can draw Family Guy when you’re 10 years old. You don’t have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.

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• You buy any book on color theory today, and it’s just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

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• 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.

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• There’s tons of people with talent; it’s the system that’s all screwed up.

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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.

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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.

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• The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

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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.

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• Open a 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.

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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.

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• Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.

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• My style is very strong poses and expressions.

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• My intended audience was everybody. I just want to make cartoons for human beings.

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• Most cartoons are those colors. They have been for 35 years.

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• Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he’s still around.

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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.

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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?

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• In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

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• If you’re a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you’re looking at Family Guy, you don’t have to aim very high.

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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.

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John Kricfalusi (27)

Birth:	9th September, 1955
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Animator, Creator

About

Michael John Kricfalusi, better known as John K. was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. He is a Canadian animator , best known for creating the Nickelodeon 90's cartoon series The Ren & Stimpy Show and founding the animation company Spümcø.

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