Weaseling Out Of Things Is Important To

Everybody Is Clever, Just In Their Own Ways

My Father Was A Really Sharp Cartoonist And Filmmaker. He Used To Tape-record The Family Surreptitiously, Either While We Were Driving Around Or At Dinner, And In 1963 He And I Made Up A Story About A Brother And A Sister, Lisa And Matt, Having An Adventure Out In The Woods With Animals.

I Thought I Was Going To Make Crazy Cartoons For The Rest Of My Life. I Didn't Think I'd Ever Get Paid For It, Didn't Think I Drew Well Enough, But I Knew It Made Me Happy.

With Animation Because You Can Draw Anything And Do Anything And Have The Characters Do Whatever You Want The Tendency Is To Be Very Loose With The Boundaries And The Rules.

But Marge, What If We Chose The Wrong Religion? Each Week We Just Make God Madder And Madder.