Craig McCracken Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.