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Genndy Tartakovsky

Profession : Director

Birth : January 17, 1970

There was a show I loved as a kid: 'The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.'

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To me, the best of 'Jack' is when we have a very good, but small idea, executed to the nines.

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I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?'

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You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake.

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I love the way the long scenes feel - one of the characteristics of '70s filmmaking is that you don't cut around a lot; you let things play out. I did that on 'Samurai Jack,' and it carried over into 'Clone Wars.'

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There are so many sitcoms, especially in animation, that we've almost forgotten what animation was about - movement and visuals.

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I've always felt that kids are a lot smarter than we've given them credit for, but we've never given them a chance to figure things out as they're watching television.

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I can't tell you how satisfying it is to have something that is your own idea get produced and then become successful.

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I really loved that old UPA stuff, like 'Gerald McBoing-Boing' and 'Mr. Magoo.' They were simple yet effective 'toons that talked to everyone, not just kids.

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The computer tends to equalize everything, all the movies are slowly blending together, the way they look.

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There's nothing like watching hand-drawn animation on the big screen.

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I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids.

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I read comics because of the art.

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Besides kind of like the Wes Anderson, or, of course, a lot of the European movies, most everybody in the States, the big studios, make pretty much the same film. And we're kind of held to Pixar standards, or Disney standards, as it's kind of always been in the animation industry.

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And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag.

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The whole style of 'Hotel Transylvania' isn't really goofy. Their castle, it's not super tall; it's almost normal sized.

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I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.

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Jim Gaffigan is someone I've always been a fan of.

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I was really fortunate in my career where I always had executives who were very like-minded.

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Definitely that was a big part of my childhood: wanting to fit. As an immigrant, you talk funny, you look funny, you smell funny. I wanted to do nothing but fit in and talk English and sit with everybody else.

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