100 Quotes by Genndy Tartakovsky

I grew up in the '70s, early '80s as a kid, and when we first immigrated to this country I went to a 7-Eleven and for the first time in my life I saw... back in the day they had this little spinning comic book rack, and there were comic books and I was basically drawn to them.

I'm not a violent person at all, and I don't want to show violence for violent's sake.

There was a show I loved as a kid: 'The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.'

For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it. The rest of it is just guiding everybody on that one path. But, figuring out the path is the difficult part.

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood.

Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.

I don't want to do animation to mimic reality. I want to push reality.