Matt Groening Quotes

You Just Have To Keep In Mind That The Important Relationship Is The Relationship With The Audience. That's What I Try To Do. Everything Else Is Secondary.

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.

I Think In Daily Newspapers, The Way Comic Strips Are Treated, It's As If Newspaper Publishers Are Going Out Of Their Way To Kill The Medium. They're Printing The Comics So Small That Most Strips Are Just Talking Heads, And If You Look Back At The Glory Days Of Comic Strips, You Can See That They Were Showcases For Some Of The Best Pop Art Ever To Come Out.

Anxiety And Hostility Seem To Be A Great Part Of Good And Bad Humor. Examining Humor Too Closely Does Seem To Destroy It.

I Personally Like The Idea Of Newspapers. It's A Good Format. You Can Read It In Whatever Order You Want. You Can Glance At It. There Is Something About A Single Screen And Scrolling Through Pages That Just Doesn't Have The Same Appeal.

I Have To Say That The Simpsons Comes From A Huge Number Of Great Writers Headed By Al Jean, The Show-runner, And The Work That They Do Is Really Fantastic. It's A Blast Just To Sit Around With Them In The Writers' Room And Listen To All The Filthy Jokes That Will Never Get On The Air.

The Simpsons And Futurama Are Such Big Projects, Going On For Years And Working In Different Media, That Everything Involved With Them, Promotion And Merchandise And Online Presence And All The Rest, Deserve To Be Scrutinized, So That's Part Of It. I Have A Great Deal Of Sympathy For Anyone At The Core Of A Multimedia Juggernaut, Even If You Might Not Care For The Specific Pop-culture Invasion Of Your Brain. The People Who Do It Work Really Hard.

Me Fail English? That's Unpossible.

I Like All Of The Early Relationship Strips That Were Collected In 'love Is Hell,' Where I Pretended To Be An Expert In Relationships And Did Comics Like 'the Nine Types Of Boyfriends,' 'sixteen Ways To End A Relationship,' 'twenty-four Things Not To Say In Bed,' And Other Arbitrarily Numbered Lists.

Being A Good Embalmer Is A Thankless Job.

If At First You Don't Succeed - Give It Up. It Isn't Worth The Pain.

Buy Space Ghost Cereal, But Don't Eat The Prizes.