John Kricfalusi Quotes

In an animated film you can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean you should do everything you want.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

It's hard to regulate the speed at which you can achieve something creative and emotional.

You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

I think when you start talking about money, it stops the whole creative process for me.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

You don't need tons of money to create art. You do need tons of money to be a part of show business. They are two different things.

When I was a little girl my parents always told me do everything you want in an artistic way. If you want to draw, make a drawing. Just do it. And if you want to play piano, play piano. It was a very free childhood where everything was possible.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.

People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I think, in big-budget movies where everything seems so poured over and restricted and the studio wants to examine every frame to make sure it's vetted properly, you lose a little bit of playfulness.

The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake.

I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Guillermo del Toro is able to invent his worlds. I would find the pressure of having to invent crippling.

I don't expect to be another Walt Disney, but I do get a terrific bang out of being able to say things with pictures. Maybe that means something deep and profound about me - but I doubt it.

We need people who are open to doing something with theme, something with a cartoonish twist.

It was fun figuring out the science of the world as much as we wanted to figure out, and then playing fast and loose in other places. Which we do with our show in general. One of the things we love about the BoJack Horseman show is that we can always fall back on, "It's a ridiculous cartoon." And it is! It's a serious, relationship-based grounded character tragedy, but it is also a ridiculous cartoon.