Bill Budge Quotes

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

I like creating images.

I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

With 'Scratch,' we want to let kids to be the creators. We want them to create interesting, dynamic things on the computer.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

Painting on the ground was a cool challenge because you can't just stand back and see what you're doing.

I draw plays every day.

It turns out that a lot of gamers love design, love to create in digital.

I wish I still had all of my old schoolwork. I'd just have all the sketches around the schoolwork, and none of the schoolwork done. Just sketches all around. I was always doodling something.