One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

If you're a kid wanting to be a cartoonist today, and you're looking at Family Guy, you don't have to aim very high.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.