Tartakovsky Quotes & Sayings

I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me. — Genndy Tartakovsky

I keep everything hidden because there's nothing about my true self that anyone likes. I'm not difficult, Sebastian. I'm the easiest person around. I don't belong, and I spend all my time pretending I do. Sometimes I get weary of it, and that makes me angry.
It's not fair to the people around me when I lose my temper. I say awful things when I'm angry. But it's not fair to me, either, that I was made this way. — Courtney Milan

Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it. — Genndy Tartakovsky

Everything that I've ever done is not really based on reality, it's the caricature of reality, which is what's really exciting. — Genndy Tartakovsky

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up. — Genndy Tartakovsky

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb. — Helen Van Slyke

Genndy [Tartakovsky] is so good at directing and so wonderful with animation. — Andy Samberg

Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way. — Genndy Tartakovsky

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly. — Cassandra Clare

But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there. — Liza Minnelli

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die. — Genndy Tartakovsky

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly. — Jamie Blackley

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere. — Genndy Tartakovsky

There are very few ethnic LGBT characters on television, so I am honored to represent them. I love supporting this cause, but it's a big responsibility, and sometimes it's a lot of pressure on me. — Naya Rivera

There are two levels to your pain: the pain that you create now, and the pain from the past that still lives on in your mind and body. Ceasing to create pain in the present and dissolving past pain - this is what I want to talk about now. — Eckhart Tolle