Futurama is a sonic world, and everyone’s attention is focused on that sound and that little cartoon image. You can change it.
BILLY WESTIt’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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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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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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I’ve always said that you can’t be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc’s voice.
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As long as I can apply my craft, I’m happy.
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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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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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I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I’m not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
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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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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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Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like.
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You should at one point become the hero of your own world.
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Somebody’s real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt.
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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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I’m not like a high intellectual. That’s the thing.
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I’m not like a high intellectual.
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