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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.

Billy West

The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Belive Character Rooted
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.
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Different People Sounded
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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Doors Kids Scare Seduce Somebody
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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Character Plot Pretty Rather Stuff
I don’t get to watch Futurama, until it’s on TV.
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Televisoion Unit Watches
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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Kind Observation Observe
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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Attention Cartoon Change Everyone Image Sound
I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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Doing Me Said Voice
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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Attention Cartoon Character Sonic Special
You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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People Watches Way
I 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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Cartoon Long People Popular
I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
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Dare Ego Something
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.
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Expecting Point Thinking View
But the throat just kind of falls into line once you realize in your head what it is. You got to remember the musicality of a character you’re going to do.
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Character Fall Lines
Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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Believe Character Real
John Kricfalusi is very talented; he used to really piss me off. But I did good work, you know? The Ren & Stimpy show without me was totally unsuccessful.
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Doubt Listening People Talented Trying

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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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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