I’m not angry. Everybody thinks I’m so angry because I have a point of view. They’re expecting me to just be all Smucker’s Jam.
BILLY WESTI did speak out about celebrities because I thought it was appalling. I thought that if the cartoon became popular, it was only going to last as long as the career of the people who are in it.
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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It’s hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff – so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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It’s very hard to take a character out of nothing, and put a hook on it, especially because it’s only sonic.
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Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, “He sounds too Jewish.” Or, “He’s too tough, he’s off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.”
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