“When you’re trying to come up with a character, I look at it a little more technically. What’s the age? So she’s maybe a teenager. Okay, where’s she from? Okay, just to make it easy, put her in the south, maybe she’s a little bit...
“I’m not making art to become famous. I’m not making art to create a masterpiece that’s going to stun the world. I’m creating art because it makes me happy. That was the number one thing that I had to realize and then practice was because...
“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...
“I did this little film on Super 8, did a little character in it, and stuck it on a projector. And the minute I turned that on, that little character that I drew turned around and looked at me. I was riveted. That was the singular moment in my life, and that...
“What is a successful writer? I always describe it as like, when you’re sitting there with your fingers on the keyboard, you’re looking at the screen, you’re in that world, the voices are in your head. It’s playing out and, and you got...
