51 Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes for You to Enjoy

Genndy Tartakovsky

Russian Director

Born: Jan 17, 1970

About Always Animation Love Me You

Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

Jack' came from... I had the same dream since I was 10, about the world being destroyed and run by mutants. I'd find a samurai sword, pick up the girl I had a crush on, and we'd go through the land, surviving. That was the initial spark to 'Samurai Jack.' Genndy Tartakovsky

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I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and muscular and airbrushed, and I stopped collecting comics. Genndy Tartakovsky

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The magic of 'Jack' is that it's unique, there's not a lot of stuff like it. Genndy Tartakovsky

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With features, you're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on production and marketing, so everybody's panicked because you literally have an opening weekend to succeed. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I think the fate of 'Star Wars' is everlasting, which is great. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I watching this Disney documentary, and I'm not Disney, but I was thinking about Mickey Mouse and he became an icon. Walt moved onto other things but he made him exist. I was thinking, 'Wow, is 'Samurai Jack' my 'Mickey Mouse?' Am I stupid to stop working on it?' Genndy Tartakovsky

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Everything that I've ever made in my life is from my instinct. Genndy Tartakovsky

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You can't have a beauty scene for beauty's sake. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I love to have contrast. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I read comics because of the art. Genndy Tartakovsky

Art Read Because Comics

And there is no finer moment, when I sit in a screening, and the parents and the kids are all laughing at the same gag. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual. Genndy Tartakovsky

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Jim Gaffigan is someone I've always been a fan of. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I was really fortunate in my career where I always had executives who were very like-minded. Genndy Tartakovsky

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If you have a character who wins all the time - well, if you have a character that loses and wins, it makes him more alive. Bugs Bunny, for example, didn't always win. Genndy Tartakovsky

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'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form. Genndy Tartakovsky

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For me, CG tends to feel watered down and it becomes cold because it's so perfect. Genndy Tartakovsky

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TV is great, and I love it, but to watch somebody's hand-crafted drawings on the big screen is an experience that we've forgotten as an audience, how much fun 2D can be. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I'm super comfortable with TV, especially in my situation where I pretty much have 100% freedom. That's the ideal, and I've been fortunate in TV to have pretty much everything I've done be at least somewhat successful. Genndy Tartakovsky

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I try not to be in my head too much, I just try to do what feels right. Genndy Tartakovsky

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