312 Quotes by Matt Groening

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

I always say that 'Futurama' is real, and 'The Simpsons' is fiction.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill the medium. They're printing the comics so small that most strips are just talking heads, and if you look back at the glory days of comic strips, you can see that they were showcases for some of the best pop art ever to come out.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

I was always frightened by taverns. They just seemed like very unpleasant places to go.

Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.