I Didn't Lie, I Was Writing Fiction

You've Got To Embrace The Future. You Can Whine About It, But You've Got To Embrace It.

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.

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.

The Entire World Of Grown-ups Is Corrupt And Stupid.

I Love The Idea That We Put In Jokes The Kids Don't Get. And That Later, When They Grow Up And Read A Few Books And Go To College And Watch The Show Again, They Can Get It On A Completely Different Level.