John Kricfalusi Quotes

When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

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

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I never sat down and said, you know, what the world needs is a good, sick cartoonist.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.

I love writing. I really look up to Lena Dunham, who writes and directs her show. That's something I might want to do when I'm older.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

When I see films like 'Lagaan' and 'Rang De Basanti,' I feel, 'Why can't I do work like this?' Then you think and realise you need to learn more to make this kind of a film or write this kind of a film. Also, somewhere down the line, you need to be brave.

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

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.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write.

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.