I don’t have that much of an ego where it’s like “How dare you, you can’t do something without me.”
BILLY WESTI’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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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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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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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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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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All actors used to sound different. Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. They were like men’s voices, but they weren’t Everyman, it was them.
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The characters are all, believe it or not, rooted in a reality of some sort.
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Don’t spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex.
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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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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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Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery ’cause of the release you sign that says there’s always a very small percent chance that you’ll die during the operation.
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Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
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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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You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
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You watch people and study them the way an alien would.
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