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Matt Groening

Since I was there in the very...

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

Love is a perky elf dancing a...

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

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

In 'Futurama,' the skin color...

In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

I think 'Family Guy' and 'Ame...

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

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Matt Groening

I thought I was going to make...

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

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Matt Groening

When The Simpsons came around...

When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.

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Matt Groening

I had been drawing my weekly ...

I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.

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Matt Groening

Back in high school, I wrote ...

Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling 'Bart,' and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

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Matt Groening

A lot of our writers, like Co...

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

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Matt Groening

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say...

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

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Matt Groening

It's a funny show. The charac...

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

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Matt Groening

People go into cartooning bec...

People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

Love is a snowmobile racing a...

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

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Matt Groening

Living creatively is really i...

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.

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Matt Groening

Because good writing in a TV ...

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

One of the things I would lik...

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

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Matt Groening

I've loved science fiction ev...

I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball...

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

Matt Groening 217 quotes
Matt Groening

The writers led by Mike Scull...

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.

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Matt Groening

Basically, everything I try t...

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

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