Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

You'd be surprised how condescending people can be.

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.

Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.

Don't treat me like a little girl.

... condescending SOBs

If you feel you're being condescended to and not taken seriously in the discussion, that can make people feel defensive.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent.

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Your questions are stupid!

He is just about the nastiest little man I've ever known. He struts sitting down.

Practically every time I speak up at a school conference, a political event, or my apartment building association's annual meeting, I'm met with a display of someone else's superior intelligence.

I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.