“When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.” LittlesPainRememberGirlComedyFootballRedRootsBrownAbsurdityCartoonMottoCharliePeanutsRed Hair Author:Lev Yilmaz
“It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.” PeopleWayLittlesMadeCharacterHomeSimpleTownsAccidentsCharacteristicsVillageCartoonEccentricPuppetsHome Town Author:William Jackson
“Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium of cartoon animation toward new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.” MeanLittlesBornLevelsWorryOrganizationFellowsProductionsEntertainmentMediumsLiberationDimensionsMiceCartoonExpandingAnimationExtendingDisney Animation Author:Walt Disney
“The fascinating thing about the studio was that there was no story department. They would put a little notice up on the bulletin board saying: 'The next Oswald will take place at the North Pole. Anybody having any gags, please turn them in before such a date.' If you turned in gags regularly, the way Tex Avery, Cal Howard, Jack Carr and two or three others of us did, you'd be called into the gag meeting. The group would go into Walt's office and talk about whatever the subject of the cartoon was. Walt would put it into some kind of form and that was the story--no scripts, no storyboards.” IfsWayKindLittlesTwoStoriesFormTurnsThreeNextGroupsSubjectsPleaseOfficeMeetingsScriptsStudiosBoardsDepartmentFascinatingCartoonWaltGagsNorth PoleBulletin Board Author:Walter Lantz
“All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that does cartwheels in yogurt commercials. I wanna be the cartoon character in that antidepressant ad who has, like, little lines under her eyes, and the divot in the middle of the pill is the pill’s mouth... have you seen this ad? It’s very good. It’s for Abilify, which is not a word.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLittlesDoeCharacterEyeFunLinesMiddleMouthsVery GoodSillyAdsHer EyesCartoonPillsYogurtAntidepressantsCartoon CharacterCartwheels Author:Julie Klausner
“I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'” HumansChildrenLittlesRealHuman BeingsMarriedMovedReal LifeCartoonRabbitsBabeJessicaChristinaMarried With Children Author:Pete Wentz