Matt Groening Quotes - Page 4

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• The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask yourself this important question: "How long am I going to be dead?" With that perspective, you can now make a free, fearless choice to do just about any goddamned sneaky thing your devious little mind can think up. Go ahead. Have your fun. You're welcome. Go on. See you in hell.

  Matt Groening

  Fun, Simple, Thinking

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• I thought I had an appetite for destruction, but all I wanted was a club sandwich.

  Matt Groening

  Sandwiches, Clubs, Funny Simpsons

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• Don't have a cow, man.

  Matt Groening

  Men, Cows

  The Simpsons (television series) (1989 - )

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• The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

  Matt Groening

  Scary, Flying, Cameras

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• With 'Futurama,' I was just worried that somebody would beat us to it; it seemed so obvious that there should be an animated science fiction show set in the future. And one of the reasons why it's not, I learned, is that it's really, really difficult.

  Matt Groening

  Fiction, Reason Why, Worried

  "'Futurama' ends: The Matt Groening interview, Part 2" by Robert Lloyd, articles.latimes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians.

  Matt Groening

  Jerk, Transportation, Public Transportation

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• I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success.

  Matt Groening

  Nice, Gone Away, Stories

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, tv.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.

  Matt Groening

  Dog, Father, School

  "Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield". Interview with Claudia De La Roca, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 2012.

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• Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

  Matt Groening

  Food, Inspiration, Funny Simpsons

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons (TV Series): Marge vs. the Monorail", www.imdb.com.

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• I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

  Matt Groening

  Crazy, Thinking, Cartoon

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• I don't mind sharing the blame if she'll just admit she started it.

  Matt Groening

  Mind, Blame, Insult

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• I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Bunnies, Audience

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  Matt Groening

  Hell, Comic, Newspapers

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• I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

  Matt Groening

  Pops, Composer, Classical Composers

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.

  Matt Groening

  Beer, Gay, Lgbt

  "The Simpsons (Classic): 'Homer's Phobia'" by Dennis Perkins, tv.avclub.com. February 8, 2015.

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• I'm a fan of animation and so, the more stuff that doesn't look like the other stuff that's out there, I'm in favor.

  Matt Groening

  Fans, Looks, Favors

  "Matt Groening looks to the future". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2009.

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• Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

  Matt Groening

  People, Mind, Trying

  Interview With Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

  Matt Groening

  Skin Color, Yellow, Skin Tone

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• I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

  Matt Groening

  Small Villages, Littles, Bali

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• A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

  Matt Groening

  Moved On, Bedtime, Conan

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• 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?"

  Matt Groening

  People, Doe, Looks

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. March 25, 2009.

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• I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when I was reading science fiction, I thought 'I can't wait for the future when the special effects are good' to represent what was in these books by Arthur C. Clarke, Alfred Bester, Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Jack Vance.

  Matt Groening

  Book, Reading, Kids

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• Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you've skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn't that much to say.

  Matt Groening

  Cat, Moon, Thinking

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• You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.

  Matt Groening

  Long, Justice, Done

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• I'm a level 5 vegan, I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

  Matt Groening

  Shadow, Levels, Vegan

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