To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

- John Kricfalusi

I don't really know what the average person thinks about animation. I think the average person thinks that it's made by cartoonists - and it used to …

- John Kricfalusi

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

- John Kricfalusi

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. Th…

- John Kricfalusi

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.

- John Kricfalusi

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.

- John Kricfalusi

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some sto…

- John Kricfalusi

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer giv…

- John Kricfalusi

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

- John Kricfalusi