Quotes by Matt Groening

Matt Groening

‘Adult Swim’ on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And ‘South Park’ continues to do great stuff. And ‘Family Guy’ and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

Cartoon

Family Guy

Swim

‘The Simpsons’ basically – and ‘Futurama’ – are really smart shows. They’re kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you’re paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

Attention

Goofy

Smart

‘The Simpsons’ from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash ’60s sitcoms – you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention – and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and ’80s, things got very mild and toned down and… obsequious.

Down And

Memories

Tv Shows

‘The Simpsons’ is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

Alienation

Ambivalence

Crazy

‘The Simpsons’ is an especially collaborative show.

Shows

‘The Simpsons’ obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don’t really like the show. They don’t like ‘The Simpsons’ at Fox.

Creative

Foxes

Results

‘The Simpsons’ was about children and married parents; ‘Futurama’ is about people in between; they’re growing up and haven’t settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

Children

Dad

Growing Up

A lot of American shows don’t last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things about The Office in particular was that there was a beginning, a middle and an end.

Cutting

Long

Office

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

Bedtime

Conan

Moved On

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told – obeyed – everything would be fine. But that’s not what life is all about. That’s not real. It’s never going to happen.

Believe

People

Real

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Able

Adults

Adventure

Agreement

Air

Alcohol

Ale

Alienation

Alive

Als

Alternatives

Ambivalence

America

Animal

Anxiety

Appreciate

Art

Ashamed

Attention

Audience

Bali

Banging

Bart Simpson

Be Careful

Beautiful

Bed

Bedtime

Beer

Being Yourself

Believe

Birth

Blame

Book

Bored

Boring

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Brother

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Careers

Careful

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Quotes by Matt Groening

Matt Groening

‘Adult Swim’ on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And ‘South Park’ continues to do great stuff. And ‘Family Guy’ and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

‘The Simpsons’ basically – and ‘Futurama’ – are really smart shows. They’re kind of disguised as these goofy animated sitcoms, but the references within the shows, if you’re paying attention, are pretty smart and pretty sophisticated.

‘The Simpsons’ from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash ’60s sitcoms – you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention – and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and ’80s, things got very mild and toned down and… obsequious.

‘The Simpsons’ is about alienation and the ambivalence of living with a family who you love but who drive you completely crazy.

‘The Simpsons’ is an especially collaborative show.

‘The Simpsons’ obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don’t really like the show. They don’t like ‘The Simpsons’ at Fox.

‘The Simpsons’ was about children and married parents; ‘Futurama’ is about people in between; they’re growing up and haven’t settled down. Every other cartoon show seemed to be, you know, dumb dad, bratty kids.

A lot of American shows don’t last for as long as 12 episodes. They get cut after one. But certainly one of the great things about The Office in particular was that there was a beginning, a middle and an end.

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

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told – obeyed – everything would be fine. But that’s not what life is all about. That’s not real. It’s never going to happen.

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