William Hanna Quotes

I was always into cartoons and animation.

Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.

George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.

I love cartoons. I'm just a big kid.

People are very appreciative, and I'm always thrilled at how long the 'Morse' films have lasted. They seem to have an afterlife that goes on and on for decades, which is touching.

'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

I'm very happy to be a part of a very successful piece of art, as the 'Saw' films have been. One gets into this to participate. It's the coming together of a good story. So, that aspect of it has been just splendid. It really has nothing to do with me or my popularity. I'm fascinated.

You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still alive.

I have more faith in doing something creative for a cable station or something like Yahoo or Google or Amazon. What Netflix did with 'House of Cards' and David Fincher was brilliant. That is inspiring to me. I think there is more chance for creativity in animation, it just hasn't happened there yet.

I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

Joel McHale is so money, he should be printed on money.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies, and Loony Tunes cartoons.

I can watch cartoons all day!

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.

I was very, very fortunate that 'Chico and the Man' was on TV, that helped me quite a bit. Of course, having the No. 1 Christmas song in the Spanish market, 'Feliz Navidad,' doesn't hurt either.