Matt Groening Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Matt Groening

• 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.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Work

• The Simpsons is an especially collaborative show.

  Matt Groening

• 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.

  Matt Groening

• Most TV shows don’t reward you for paying attention.

  Matt Groening

• Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

  Matt Groening

• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Love

• 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.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Life

• I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don’t get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Love

• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Life

• God often gives nuts to toothless people.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in God

• Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Love

• Everybody doesn’t have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

  Matt Groening

• Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?

  Matt Groening

• Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

  Matt Groening

• A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told – obeyed – everything would be fine. But that’s not what life is all about. That’s not real. It’s never going to happen.

  Matt Groening

  Topics in Life

Matt Groening (37)

Birth:	15th February, 1954
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist, Producer, Screenwriter

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