Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

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Genndy Tartakovsky

Profession : Director

Birth : January 17, 1970

Humor is the hardest thing to do. Action is so much easier, because you're just trying to establish the mood, and a pacing, and a rhythm, and an energy. Where, in humor, comedy is so subjective.

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Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct.

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Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

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I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

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The last thing you want to do is blend in. You want to stand out, and hopefully in a good way.

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Jack' came from... I had the same dream since I was 10, about the world being destroyed and run by mutants. I'd find a samurai sword, pick up the girl I had a crush on, and we'd go through the land, surviving. That was the initial spark to 'Samurai Jack.'

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In feature animation, it's kind of taboo to make a movie that's more cartoony. But I never really believed that.

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For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

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If you have a character who wins all the time - well, if you have a character that loses and wins, it makes him more alive. Bugs Bunny, for example, didn't always win.

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I love to have contrast.

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Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.

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I always felt like as the director, I gotta be the best at everything.

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Boarding for me, like in the days of 'Dexter,' was really hard, because I couldn't draw as well, and I had people around me who drew really well, so it was hard.

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I used to work until two in the morning every night, then still get up at six. Now, I have to help my daughter with her homework, spend time with my wife.

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I don't like darkness in everything. I like my superheroes in primary colors, and fun.

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I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics.

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I love 'Jack' as one of my creations and would never want to change it from what it was supposed to be. There was no reason to reinvent.

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The magic of 'Jack' is that it's unique, there's not a lot of stuff like it.

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With features, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on production and marketing, so everybody's panicked because you literally have an opening weekend to succeed.

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I think the fate of 'Star Wars' is everlasting, which is great.

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