Genndy Tartakovsky

I feel like animation's stagnant. There's not much that's trying to push the artform, and so, for me, I'm way too critical about it. ”

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction. ”

I had done it all in my career. I always felt, as a kid, that that's what a director needed to be. Hitchcock could do anything in my mind. He's the director. That person has to be the best actor, the best designer, the best cinematographer. Then I came to realize that isn't the case. You just need to surround yourself with the best. ”

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

I'm very in the now; I don't like to look back a lot. ”

If you look back at Disney's 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' or 'Pocahontas,' animated films were trying to get more and more real before CG really arrived. ”

Going as far back as 'Dexter's Lab,' we've always had these sequences with no dialogue. The interesting thing is those sequences got the biggest reactions. ”

One of the things I hate about TV for kids is that it conescends to them. ”

As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead. ”

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. ”