Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

It never felt like we were making a 'Star Wars' movie. It didn't feel like it was serious. It just felt like we were allowed to be creative and kind of goof off.

I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork.

I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all.

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it.

I don't want to be with someone boring because I'm always laughing. I like to play jokes on people and be sarcastic.

Don't worry, I'm hilarious.

For me, my music is fun. I don't really take my music that serious.

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

I'm a jokester, man.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

I'm good at being funny.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.

Let's make some funny pictures.

You need to be silly to be funny.

I learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.