Craig Mccracken Quotes

#1. There's a lot you can do without words.

Craig McCracken

#2. I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

Craig McCracken

#3. First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.

Craig McCracken

#4. Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.

Craig McCracken

#5. For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Craig McCracken

#6. I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

Mavis Gallant

#7. Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters
who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.

Washington Irving

#8. Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.

Craig McCracken

#9. But for me, Room is a peculiar (and no doubt heretical) battle between Mary and the Devil for young Jesus. If God sounds absent from that triangle, that's because I think that for a small child, God's love is represented, and proved, by mother-love.

Emma Donoghue

#10. I'm hoping that word-of-mouth on the film - people seeing it and liking it - that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven't seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

Craig McCracken

#11. The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.

Craig McCracken

#12. Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

Craig McCracken

#13. The shows are either 11 or 22 minutes and they move pretty quickly, and that's part of the charm of them - so it was just trying to keep that in mind and keep the energy of the story moving, even though we were dealing with a longer format.

Craig McCracken

#14. We chose the actors thru a series of auditions when we started the show.

Craig McCracken

#15. The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as "I am such an important man" or "I am so and so". Level the mound of "I" to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.

Ramakrishna

#16. I feel that a lot of sexy people never say that they are sexy.

Romeo Miller

#17. Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw.

Craig McCracken

#18. It wouldn't be the first unfamiliar finger up his ass.

James S.A. Corey

#19. At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

Maile Meloy

#20. A partial truth is nothing more than an entire lie.

Fred Munoz

#21. It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking.

Craig McCracken

#22. Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

Evgeny Morozov

#23. I think feature films sell on the idea, and I think TV works based almost entirely on execution. I don't think anybody is going, 'Wow, that show is executed poorly, but the idea is so cool I just have to keep watching.'

Bill Lawrence

#24. But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Craig McCracken

#25. Fragments of the future spun past like whirling puzzle pieces with an endless array of combinations. Yet, even with millions of possible outcomes, the same conclusion punctuated every scenario: blissful happiness.
Love.

Kendall Grey

#26. I want you so much. I want you forever. Forgive me ... I love you so much.

S.C. Stephens

#27. Two guys walk into a bar. The third one ducks.

Various

#28. So what I do is supervise the boarding process trying to get the shows the way I'd like them to be. And in some cases I've completely redone a board myself even though I'm not credited for it.

Craig McCracken

#29. Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

Craig McCracken

#30. I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.

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#31. One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

Craig McCracken

#32. I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.

Craig McCracken

#33. I'm always thinking about what I might want to do next, but there's still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.

Craig McCracken

#34. The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.

Craig McCracken