100 Quotes by Genndy Tartakovsky

Being a hardcore old-school comic book lover, it took me a while to accept the need for comic book movies.

There were so many amazing comic books. Like I was around for the original Frank Miller/Chris Claremont 'Wolverine' miniseries.

I was an immigrant when I came, and one of my biggest things was I really wanted to fit in. I didn't want to be, 'Oh, look at that guy;' I wanted to be part of the crowd. Which is a weird thing, because the more successful I got, the more out of the crowd I became.

Storytelling has changed. Shows like 'Adventure Time' have taken storytelling in a different direction.

Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.

I'm a very happy, optimistic person.

I was thirty when I did 'Jack.'

'Samurai' is not an animated show like you would normally watch on TV. We tell the stories from a different perspective - backward, very nonlinear. It treats it more seriously as an art form.

Doing simple flip books, I used to get such a kick out of it, just drawings and nothing else.