I’m very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features. Bill Plympton Read Quote
I look at some of my early stuff – back when I was 12 or 13 years old – and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don’t know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow. Bill Plympton Read Quote
Being a talented artist is good, it’s nice, but it’s not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist. Bill Plympton Read Quote
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for ‘Guard Dog’ when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird. Bill Plympton Read Quote
I don’t see why it’s such a stretch for distributors, buyers, and studios to put cartoon characters into adult situations on film. Bill Plympton Read Quote
America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation. Bill Plympton Read Quote
I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it. Bill Plympton Read Quote
I’m much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them. Bill Plympton Read Quote
Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine. Bill Plympton Read Quote
