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I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'
- Matt Groening
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#Myself
#Research
#Television
#Way
We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.
- Matt Groening
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#Behind
#Little
#Only
#Schedule
People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.
- Matt Groening
#Angry
#Back
#People
#Shy
#Teacher
'The Simpsons' is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.
- Matt Groening
#Crazy
#Drive
#Family
#Living
#Love
The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don't know.
- Matt Groening
#Great
#Home
#I Can
#Know
#Time
I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.
- Matt Groening
#Continue
#Fun
#Hell
#Life
#Time
The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny anymore.
- Matt Groening
#Daily
#Face
#Funny
#Me
#Push
Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.
- Matt Groening
#Beginning
#Deep
#Emotions
#Genius
#Work
We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
- Matt Groening
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#Science Fiction
#Science
#Who
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
- Matt Groening
#Character
#Family
#Father
#Mother
#Name
'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.
- Matt Groening
#Adult
#Amazing
#Family
#Great
#Park
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again.
- Matt Groening
#Again
#Did
#Know
#Why
#Will
Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.
- Matt Groening
#Dark
#Life
#Live
#Night
#View
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.
- Matt Groening
#Career
#People
#Two
#Up
#Who
Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?
- Matt Groening
#Anything
#Donuts
Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
- Matt Groening
#Good Mood
#Good
#Mind
#Mood
#Negative
I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.
- Matt Groening
#American
#Dad
#Family
#I Can
#Style
In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
- Matt Groening
#Cartoon
#Color
#Skin Color
#Skin
#Yellow
'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.
- Matt Groening
#Attention
#Beginning
#Look
#Memories
My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'
- Matt Groening
#Act
#Comment
#Like
#Want
#Your
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
- Matt Groening
#Funny
#People
#Sometimes
#Story
#Wild
Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.
- Matt Groening
#Alcohol
#Answer
#Cause
#Life
#Problems
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
- Matt Groening
#Gun
#Little
#Love Is
#Love
#Suddenly
One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.
- Matt Groening
#Great
#Humor
#Internet
#Me
#No Sense
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
- Matt Groening
#Love Is
#Love
#Night
#Racing
#Suddenly
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