Joe Murray Quotes

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.

The guy who actually did the belch talking is a producer at Warner brothers. Everyone told us how great he was, so we brought him in on recording day.

Since this was the first and only series I had ever produced, I was unaware of what the "Normal" environment was for a studio. I tried to run it as I did in my SF studio.

We`re the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

I know when a concept or character is not working it is usually because I cannot find a relatable point with it, or an aspect of my personality.

The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.

I fought hard to get this episode on because it dealt with adoption, and how someone feels when they find out who their real parents are.

Anyone who knows me, knows I don`t walk away from a commitment, but I had a commitment to myself. Yes, there were times Nickelodeon made it more difficult than it needed to be, but there were also times they made it easier.

I think cheese smells funny, but I feel bananas "are" funny. I`m assuming Swamp told the whole story of the executives seriously asking us to replace the banana with cheese because they thought it was funnier.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.

When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

We had an incredible staff, of some of the most talented in the business. Talent with egos that didn`t get in the way. We all had the same goals.

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

I`m drawing, animating and writing better than I`ve ever been before, and I love my life with my wife Carol and the excitement of our new baby!!

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.

I had to catch up with where creative technologies had gone since I worked on the show, did some bohemian painting,and continued research into animation, studying the masters, developing new methods, styles, character studies etc.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.