Words matter. These are the best Butch Hartman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a parent, and my kids think I’m an idiot.
I’ve got a cool sketchbook that I am selling on Amazon.
I just like to draw and put ideas down. And every idea that Nickelodeon doesn’t buy I put on the Noog Network.
I get so many kids coming up to me now, saying, ‘Oh, Mr. Hartman, I love your show, I grew up with it; I understand all the jokes now!’
When we grew up, we had three channels on television and only one day of cartoons and if you missed it, you missed it.
I learned early that I could get attention from adults with my drawings.
I used to sit in front of the TV and draw the Flintstones as fast as I could.
All I ever wanted to do was draw.
I want adults to be the last ones to switch off a cartoon on TV.
Like any good business, I think Nickelodeon waits to see results.
Fairly OddParents’ is one of those rare shows that really resonated with people beyond demographics.
We write stories that we like and hope the kids like them, too. But we definitely make sure that they skew toward a kid audience.
I always try to make/produce shows that can be viewed by the entire family. I never want to intentionally make anything that I will be embarrassed by or that people of any age can’t watch.
It’s always been tough to imagine the T.U.F.F. Puppy animal gang living next to Danny Phantom.
I never played sports. I was always drawing.
I thought about ‘Johnny Quest’ and how I loved that cartoon and what a cool name he has. I tried to come up with other names and thought ‘Johnny Phantom’ would be cool, a superpowered kid who was a ghostbuster.
When ‘Johnny Bravo’ was going to end, I thought, ‘I really need to sell something. I need a job.’ So, I sat down and just sketched this little boy with a fairy godmother. I was going to do a boy version of ‘Cinderella.’
I want to encourage everyone to experiment and try out as many of your talents as you can because, if you utilize them properly, they will make you into a much more well-rounded person in the end.
You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.
I think I’m fascinated with empowering the shy kids.
When kids are kids, everything a parent does seems goofy.
Life is full of challenges, but I always have the Three Ps: Passion, patience and persistence. And the fourth one is pizza.
I owe a lot to ‘SpongeBob.’
There’s been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.
I was working on ‘My Little Pony’ in the ’80s, but I got fired because I couldn’t draw the ponies well enough. It was a horrible show.
