Mark Hamill Quotes

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

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

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

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.

I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.

That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home.

A sketch is just a mini movie.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family.

I've always wanted to be a manga-ka, so I'm doing what I love.

I go off and make movies; I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls.

When I was in middle school, I liked to make cartoons.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?

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.