William Hanna Quotes

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

I've done the voice for the Hulk for the animated cartoon.

I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.

I'm not into superhero movies, but I love cartoons. Tweety bird is my favourite.

I actually grew up watching a lot of these cartoons - a lot of the animated series. 'Batman: The Animated Series,' 'Justice League,' all the stuff that would come onto Cartoon Network.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

I saw one of the old 'Tom and Jerry' cartoons the other day. I hadn't seen it for 30 years and I didn't remember it. We made 160 of them! I thought it was a very funny cartoon.

I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

'Superman' was a total accident. The producers of the animated series were having a hard time finding someone to read the character. I was brought in through a connection and, I think, out of desperation.

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'

I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

I just find 'Scooby-Doo' unwatchable. I can't stand it. I like all those other Hanna-Barbera shows about a thousand times more than 'Scooby-Doo.'

A lot of people get emotional in movies that are cartoons, but not in TV shows.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.

The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.

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!

I sang the 'Kim Possible' song for their cartoon series 'Kim Possible'.