Craig McCracken famous quotes

Theres a lot you can do without words.
-- Craig McCracken

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

#Talking #Giving #Needs

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

#People #Mouths #Film

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

#Artist #Long #Teens

I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
-- Craig McCracken

#Artist #Drawing

I started working at Hanna-Barbera in '92 on 2 Stupid Dogs.
-- Craig McCracken

#Dog #Stupid

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.
-- Craig McCracken

#Missing #Portfolios

Basicly I'm in charge of all creative aspects of the show.
-- Craig McCracken

#Creative #Aspect #Shows

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.
-- Craig McCracken

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

#Boards #Wigs #Rooms

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

#Mean #Differences #People

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

#Character #Toys #Collectors

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

#Moving #Mind #Trying

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexters Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones.
-- Craig McCracken

#Girl #Dog #Stupid

Im always thinking about what I might want to do next, but theres still things I want to do with Powerpuff - so I can keep going with this one for awhile.
-- Craig McCracken

#Thinking #Want #Might

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

#Jobs #Writing #Artist