“Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's s...” — Lev Yilmaz Quote

Even in a gleefully negative comic, there is optimism, although it's slightly hidden: It comes out through a comic character's sheer tenacity. He keeps going and trying to find some sort of fulfillment regardless of his perpetual failure record. That's a form of hope, a form of optimism. Really hokey I know, but it's true.

A lot of people feel that there is less artistry involved in cartoon making unless they have painstaking control of each frame.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

I am hopeful because love overflows from my heart. Gratitude for beauty and life leads my way.

He who is without hope is also without fear.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I don't understand Chicago, but I really do hope that the Commander-in-Chief addresses his home town. I think those young kids don't see outside their small box. I think they don't see outside their circumstances, so they kind of resort to anything.