I Judge My Life By How Miserable

A Lot Of American Shows Don't Last For As Long As 12 Episodes. They Get Cut After One. But Certainly One Of The Great Things About The Office In Particular Was That There Was A Beginning, A Middle And An End.

My Father Was A Really Sharp Cartoonist And Filmmaker. He Used To Tape-record The Family Surreptitiously, Either While We Were Driving Around Or At Dinner, And In 1963 He And I Made Up A Story About A Brother And A Sister, Lisa And Matt, Having An Adventure Out In The Woods With Animals.

I Always Thought That Television Was The Way To Go In My Goal To Invade Pop Culture Because It Got To Towns In Which There Were No Bookstores. That's How I Used To Think Of It: How Do I Reach Kids Who Not Only Don't Read But Probably Have No Access To Much In The Way Of Books?

A Lot Of People Believe That If Everybody Just Did What They Were Told - Obeyed - Everything Would Be Fine. But That's Not What Life Is All About. That's Not Real. It's Never Going To Happen.

I Went Through A Phase Where People Would Introduce Me At Parties As A Cartoonist, And Everybody Felt Sorry For Me. 'oh, Matt's A Cartoonist.' Then People Further Feeling Sorry For Me Would Ask Me To Draw Garfield. Because I'm A Cartoonist, Draw Snoopy Or Garfield Or Something.