Words matter. These are the best Joe Murray Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
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.
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.
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.
Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
We’re the real estate industry – not the manufacturers.
I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.
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.
To the patient, any operation is momentous.
The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.
Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
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.
With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.
Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.
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.
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn’t graft permanently.
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.
