“Discipline and commitment are essential to being a writer. You can’t be a writer unless you’re disciplined and you’re committed to the cause, which is like, write the script, write the book, write the sonnet, write the symphony. If...
“I love meeting people from all over the world. I love it. I love it when we’re getting close to the festival and I’m exhausted and you think, “Oh God, I’m ready to get it over with.” But then you have thousands of people coming,...
“I learned a great deal from Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. I learned from them that cartoons can be as visually amazing as a Bob Clampett cartoon, but they also can be verbally clever, like the best of the Yogis and the Hucks. I really, ultimately, when I was...
“Create that community around you. And it doesn’t have to be someone who’s physically there. You can find critique partners and meet over Zoom. I think it’s so important to find that, that community and to help each other and to be good artist...
“Who am I if I’m not doing this, you know? It’s so much of your personality, it’s more than a profession. It’s like a lifestyle because you sacrifice so much. You put so much in, so you can’t really leave it.” ~ Sören...
