Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
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The success of 'The Simpsons' really opened doors. It showed that if you were working in animation you didn't necessarily have to be working in kids' television.
Kids aren't growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.
I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.
People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.
I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
I grew up, obviously, watching tons of animation; Saturday morning cartoons or anything that we could get our hands on. And then when 'The Simpsons' premiered, that just kind of changed the landscape of everything. We hadn't had prime time animations since 'The Flintstones.'
Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.